Music Quotes
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Before it was my career, music was my hobby. I did it for fun and I suppose that would’ve continued had there been no career. Moving to Nashville to work in radio is what gave me the opportunity to meet the people who could help make the hobby a career. Odds of success are never good in the music business, but it can give you a leg up if you locate where the decisions are made…and for country music, that’s Nashville. But the best advice is to be sure you’re having fun doing it whether the career works out or not.
John Conlee
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We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a bath - at 14 months or something like that. My mother and dad both swore that was true, but I'm sure it wasn't very good... We always had the Metropolitan Opera on the radio on Saturday afternoons.
Jim Foglesong
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I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song.
Cynthia Addai-Robinson
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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.
Dong Young-bae
Big Bang
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When I wanted to be a music teacher, I wanted to help people through voice. Now, I get to help people out through song.
Khalid
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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
Quincy Jones
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I think all groups who don't fit in clearly with Western music have to think, 'How can I expand my market? Where else can I perform?'
Kiran Ahluwalia
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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.
Alex Kapranos
Franz Ferdinand
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It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.
Jim Jarmusch
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My favorite memory about 'Baywatch' is the music. That was my favorite part. It was, like, my calling. And to watch everyone run in slow motion.
Priyanka Chopra
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The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.'
Leon Bridges
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I just want Christians to embrace the fact that music is made not just for the church, but it's also for the people that need to hear about the love of God.
Anthony Evans
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Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.
Chris Raschka
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Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a song, and it will open up a new area of music for me. I discovered an Argentinian guitarist, Jose Luis Bieito, on Classic FM.
Lesley Manville
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Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.
Q-Tip
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When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.
Agnes Obel
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We do a lot of improvisation. There's definitely an element in the music that is well-suited to that scene.
Felix Riebl
The Cat Empire
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I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.
Martin Luther
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If I wasn't doing music, I would be a makeup artist.
Jessie James Decker
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If it came down to it, I wish people heard different records from me that I know give you a soul R&B sound of music that I know is really my gift, gift. But the ones that usually go are the records that radio, the fans and the clubs really love the most.
Jeremih Felton
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Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was in improvised music I'd set it up myself, play the gig, and put it all away again.
Jamie Muir
