Music Quotes
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If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.
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Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.
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It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
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I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that.
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I definitely see myself as an international musician. When I play, I respect the source of the music, whether it's Cuban, Brazilian or Israeli. I try to bring that to all of the music I play. Music has no borders and no flags.
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We wouldn't be where we are without people loving our music.
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I've never really presumed to know what my fans want or like. When I'm making the music, I just chase whatever I find interesting that day and luckily there are people who find it interesting as well.
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That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.
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People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.
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When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.
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But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.
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I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community are uncool and not part of the mainstream culture.
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I've never seen the devil create music.
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I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.
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I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.
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I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.
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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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Darker music turns you into a hardcore motherfucker!
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I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen
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I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.
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Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
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I think my music covers a broader sound than just 'Tropical House'... My goal is to simply be a great producer in my own right without being pigeonholed.
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I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.
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Music is about textures as well as melody.
