Music Quotes
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Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.
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When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.
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Things can end badly, as they sometimes do in life. But if they do, then we know that something is wrong, just as we know it when a piece of music doesn’t resolve itself properly at the end. We know that. We just do. And so we prefer harmony.
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I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.
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To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.
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Putting out compilation records, buying the right to music is incredibly complicated. You have to find the writer of the song and the publisher of the song - not the singer - and make two separate deals.
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On being upset by comments that suggest the music on Dirt advocates drug use, quoted in ** Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass. Rolling Stone (November 26, 1992).
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One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
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I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job.
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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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It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
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I've always been drawn to all kinds of music - to me, it's all the same. There's different arrangements and slightly different ways of writing, but if it's a good song, it's a good song - you can dress it up any way you like.
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I think it's important to say something. If you're making music it's kinda' like, oh, cool, so is everyone else.
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I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.
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The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.
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Folks have been asking for a place to support the band and get our new 2-song single direct one their phones — so we’ve made the download available on Bandcamp.
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There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.
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I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.
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I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.
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Radio isn't just a jukebox for music anymore because you can get music anywhere.
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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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I want to be the first guy to help people accept everybody for who they are. I'm talking about colors, religions, sex, everybody. My music is for everybody, it's not just for one kind of group.
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I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox.
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Our industry classic music has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.
