Music Quotes
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I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
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Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.
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Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.
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The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
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I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.
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I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
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Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.
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If you go to Tiananmen Square, or go to any public area in China, you will hear my music at some point.
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Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.
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It's not that I don't care how I look, but I'd rather turn the attention to the music as much as possible.
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I want to touch people with the music and help them through whatever they're going through. That's what music's there for - making people happy.
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Whether it's in relation to the sort of music that is played there or not, in any event, it's tragic for the families involved here.
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Canada can be tough for urban music.
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I just thought it would be awesome to become a lawyer, especially being from a neighborhood seeing the police rough up so many people unnecessarily, people who haven't done nothing. Growing up with kids from dysfunctional families and stuff, I just felt that some kind of difference could be done. And now I'm getting to do it with music instead.
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It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.
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The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Music stops you from thinking.
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Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual.
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I just want to bring the people good music.
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My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.
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Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.
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Music and other forms of art are by far the most effective kind of social-work that exists. A single, nameless one-hit wonder brings more comfort to the world than almost any single psychologist can hope to in a lifetime
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I've learned that music is such a healer.
