Music Quotes
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I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.
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The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.
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You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.
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It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.'
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As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!
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My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.
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If you go in RCA A, you'll realize that it's not just a Nashville thing. It's a studio that belongs to music.
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Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.
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Music and dance have also always been a communal activity, something that everyone participated in. The thought of a musical concert in which a class of professionals performed for a quiet audience was virtually unknown throughout our species' history.
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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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My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.
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I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. With The Walkmen we all wrote a lot of stuff alone, but then we'd start collaborating with each other.
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I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
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I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
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People aren't taking their time with the music no more. There's less quality in the records.
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Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
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When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees Lift burdened branches, stilled with ecstasies. When music sounds, out of the water rise Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes, Rapt in strange dream burns each enchanted face, With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place. When music sounds, all that I was I am Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came; And from Time's woods break into distant song The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.
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A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.
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I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.
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I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.
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We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their selfesteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.
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I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.
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The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.
