Music Quotes
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Instead, of worrying if something will be a hit, bands need to go out and make good music, get a following, play live. That's how you make a career these days.
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I went to my first CMA Music Fest when I was 14 and waited in line for two hours to meet two people: Taylor Swift and Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum. It's very ironic but not accidental that those two people refer to me as their 'little sister' now.
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When I started playing music, it was natural for me to make passionate, heavy, electro rock. It was in my musical DNA.
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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
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My music sounds different because the techniques are archaic, seeing as most people only record digitally.
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I wanted to break into producing, so I would peddle my tracks and beats to labels. I always heard the same thing: They liked the music, but it didn't fit any of the artists on their roster.
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I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.
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My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, "You have to practice three hours a day!" I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.
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The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.
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I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.
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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
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So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.
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If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.
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I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.
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I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' I said, 'Well then, I'll beat my head against that wall.' I quite literally began hitting things, and developed a music of percussion that involved noises.
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Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.
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If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
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The world I was born into was one filled with music.
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If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.
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I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.
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I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.
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As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!
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I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself. I think that is an artist's fate. You have to keep trying to find your own world and express it.
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I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.
