Music Quotes
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I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.
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The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
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A lot of times when I'm at home kickin' it, I don't even listen to hip hop. I listen to all types of music.
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In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
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I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am.
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I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.
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I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.
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It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.
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I have quite catholic taste in music.
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I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.
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Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.
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Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously.
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The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that riff, that I really liked and made me listen in a different way.
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I think my intention was there, and my love for the music was apparent. And there are very few singers who get up and desire to take the kinds of risks that jazz musicians routinely need to be taking.
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What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.
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I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.
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My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.
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I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
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It definitely feels different to perform to people who know your music. Because people's feedback is not just, 'Oh my God, that was amazing. Who are you?'
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For me, family has always been one of the key reasons to make music.
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I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
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Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.
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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.
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Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
