Music Quotes
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Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.
Yehudi Menuhin
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I think we make the music that we make. Yes, we are aware of music climate, and we are all avid fans of listening, collecting and discovering music.
Nathan Connolly Snow Patrol
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I don't have an iPod. I don't get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some '70s music, some '80s music, and that's it.
Scott Vincent James Baio
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Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.
Colbie Caillat
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I used to skate around the rink with my mom, and we used to race each other until I started getting way better. Then she hung up her skates and resorted to playing my music at the rink.
Mirai Nagasu
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I'm hoping to knock down the walls and broaden the lane a little bit more for music that's pop music at the heart of it.
Santi White
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I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture.
Benny Carter
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I'm a band leader and substitute teacher, and then one day they bring me into a music class, and I'm like, 'Wait a minute, I know this stuff.' And the principal is like, 'Just throw the video in and call it a day,' and I'm like, 'That's not good enough. I want these kids to know what it's like to have a gig and all that kind of stuff.'
Craig Robinson
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Music does not express any idea, but it gives rise to thousands.
Alessandro Manzoni
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I went to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, which was great but very different from a typical university. They sat us down in the first week and said: if you want to party, you've come to the wrong place. There was no lie-ins or skipping lectures.
Kimberley Nixon
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I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.
Lee Ann Womack
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Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.
Jimmy Iovine
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I think my intention was there, and my love for the music was apparent. And there are very few singers who get up and desire to take the kinds of risks that jazz musicians routinely need to be taking.
Kurt Elling
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I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.
Daryl Franklin Hohl
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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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It's made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn't made it more popular.
Chick Corea
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It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.
Arto Lindsay
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I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.
Caroline Shaw
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We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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I guess people have a hard time dealing with humour in music. But sometimes life is depressing, and sometimes life is fun, is about just laughing with your friends, and I wanted to express that as well as the darker stuff.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
Leo Kottke
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We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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I like my 1980s music. That's why I would bring that back, in a new kind of way, for the people of today. Those are my inspirations.
Karl Wolf
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I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.
Alfred Brendel