Music Quotes
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Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?
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This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-hop. You can't say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and mumble all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.
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Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.
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It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'
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Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.
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I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.
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A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
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We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.
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Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.
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That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.
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I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.
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My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!
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God is love … why limit music to one genre that’s supposed to represent him.
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I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.
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We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and go for it.
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I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.
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Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.
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When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.
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Birmingham did a truly remarkable thing in building Symphony Hall, which is the finest concert hall in the U.K. and one of the best in the world. The city has supported music without putting on the brakes.
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I think music is one of the clearest ways to connect between people of all differences.
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Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
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The music is fun. The big difference performing it live is that we might get a little more heated, not as subdued, we'll stretch things out more. It's how you stay fresh after such a long time in the business.
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Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.
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It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
