Music Quotes
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Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.
Nellie Melba
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We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
Ahmed Best
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I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.
Debby Ryan
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I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
Jane Siberry
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All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.
Andris Nelsons
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The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
Lotte Lehmann
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There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.
Alex North
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I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.
Arik Roper
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I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.
Blythe Danner
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I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.
Andrea Bocelli
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When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.
Rivers Cuomo Weezer
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I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.
Jens Lekman
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It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
Charley Pride
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I tour Europe a lot. They still have a love and a fascination with the basic thing about music - how it feels and that being the focus. I've got people bringing their kids. And their kids bring their kids. The grandchildren are getting selfies with their Uncle Al.
Al Jarreau
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Martin Mull
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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.
Rickie Lee Skaggs
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I respect artists so much, and I absolutely love music as the ultimate art.
Christie Brinkley
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I've always been drawn to all kinds of music - to me, it's all the same. There's different arrangements and slightly different ways of writing, but if it's a good song, it's a good song - you can dress it up any way you like.
Anna Ternheim
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In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.
Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
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I don't make my music for just me or a few people. Hopefully everybody that makes music wants to be embraced by the people they tryna make it for, you know what I'm saying. It's just a matter of time before everybody gets the message that I'm tryna send out.
Bun B
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I always had a frisson when I heard the Champions League music. To play in that competition, to score a goal in it, is something special for me.
Antoine Griezmann
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Every James Brown cut makes a party get crazy. He's the god of all music. I always play different wild remixes of his songs because people start bugging out when they realise what I'm playing.
Afrika Bambaataa
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Michael Jackson was one of popular culture's greatest artists. Nobody danced better. Few sang more compellingly. No one understood more about stage spectacles or music videos. He was an innovator. His reach was global.
Margo Jefferson