Music Quotes
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L.A. was just an inspiring kind of place to be. It felt like going to Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Everybody's there. Everybody's hanging around. Everybody's talking about music.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
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I always feel like young people are more emotionally in tune with new and timeless music.
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After the success of 'Rumours,' we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By that point, the success detaches from the music, and the success becomes about the success. The phenomenon becomes about the phenomenon.
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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 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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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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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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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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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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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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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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Webern was a kind of 'Kamchatka of music,' an unknown country of music. That's true; for me and people of my generation, he was a radical - you couldn't be more radical than he was.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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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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Country music has room for a little bit of everything.
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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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Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.
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Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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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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Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
