Music Quotes
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I hope some of these new young rock 'n' roll country guys enjoy themselves... I'm not trying to knock them, but if some of that's country music, then I'm a Chinaman.
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Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.
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That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.
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It's been a very remarkable year, and I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a life of solitude and loyalty and commitment to my work. I just don't prioritize my life in the same way that other people do. The only thing that matters is my music and my performance.
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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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For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.
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I searched YouTube for 'deaf music videos' and watched them with the sound muted. I noticed that though you could understand the words being signed, the sense of rhythm was lost. That's when I had the idea to create a video where you could see the sounds you couldn't hear.
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In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
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I was a dancer for long time. And you always hear that ballet is the core of dance, and that - once you have that down - you can do everything else. For me, jazz is like that for music.
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There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.
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I want to just change how people look at music and artists.
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I am optimistic about the future of music.
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I'm in a car so much on tour that I often just ask my friends to DJ and ask them what they like. That's the best way I discover music.
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Perhaps it is music that will save the world.
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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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Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at the future of music because they're concentrating so hard on what they can get from it right this second. It's really hard to see an artist; it's a lot easier to see money.
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Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
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Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.
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I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s. My wife knows everything about music, and I try and get her to educate me, but it's just not part of my DNA.
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I'm still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music.
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I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' I said, 'Well then, I'll beat my head against that wall.' I quite literally began hitting things, and developed a music of percussion that involved noises.
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The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
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I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.
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'Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals.
