Music Quotes
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainstream music,' because I was afraid to sing Christian music to alienate my friends. Honestly, it was going on 'Idol,' having that kind of exposure, that I realized there's something different about me. I just crave God being a part of every moment.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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For me, I don't feel all the pressure. I make music, and I release it because I like it myself and I want my friends to hear it from me.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
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You search for images and stories and movies and music from people that look like you and sound like you and speak like you because you want to feel like, 'Oh, if they can do it, so can I.' There's a little bit of that need for validation, especially when you're younger and trying to look to someone to look up to.
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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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Country music has room for a little bit of everything.
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It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.
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All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!
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It used to be, like, the sanctity of rock was that you could never let a song of yours be used in a commercial. It was like, 'Oh man, we'll never let our music be exploited that way.' Now they'll call you up and say, 'You gotta use this song in your movie, man. It's the new VW ad! People love it.' And you realize, boy, have times changed.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
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I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.
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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
