Music Quotes
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I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.
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I think music is one of the clearest ways to connect between people of all differences.
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I would never get married in a conventional way; I'd have the 'Curb' music as the union music.
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Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.
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[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.
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My music is like my freedom space.
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A lot of people of color in the music industry are still more interested in embracing things that are considered white canon, and looking radical. Like when people point to punk in the indie world: If you point to the history of punk as what you see as your legacy, that's more prized and praised.
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You know I used to listen to music a lot more.
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I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.
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A common sense of humour and a love of music is really important, as I love all types of music. You name me any genre, and I can give you a list of artists I adore.
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I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.
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Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.
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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.
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Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.
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My music isn't mainstream music.
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I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.
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The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
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At this stage, most of the awards I get are concerned with my longevity. Even I'm amazed at myself because there have been new generations since I've been born and new music that they create, so it's amazing to still be on the radar.
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If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.
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I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
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If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.
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I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to wear a gown to everything.
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The Clash had a unique, special relationship with Scotland. Perhaps it was something to do with the energy, anger and beauty in their music. In Scotland at that time, there was a lot of to be angry about. And a great need of some energy and beauty.
