Music Quotes
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As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.
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I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.
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I love music. I've just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be.
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Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!
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When I'm running, I like to listen to dance music and hip-hop.
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I was an extra in a Tia Carrere music video.
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I am just creating the music I enjoy to make, and people seem to enjoy it.
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I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song.
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Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.
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I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox.
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My style is part of the music I like, the bands I see, the people I surround myself with, the places I go to.
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My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass.
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I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you're filming, a non-player like me gets to feel somehow part of the band.
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It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
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When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.
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The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.
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Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.
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Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.
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That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.
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Winning the BBC Music Sound Of 2016 poll has left me feeling pretty stunned at the end of one of the most emotionally and physically intense years of my life.
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You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.
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Snatam Kaur is a yogini, and I find her music deeply spiritual. I feel more love and I feel more peace when I listen to her music.
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I was a dancer for long time. And you always hear that ballet is the core of dance, and that - once you have that down - you can do everything else. For me, jazz is like that for music.
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Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
