Music Quotes
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I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.
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It's a job, and it's challenging. But I love music and creating. That's why I got into music.
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There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.
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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
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I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.
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I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.
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It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.
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Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.
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'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.
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Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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I've realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don't have to wait for anybody's permission to do.
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If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
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I respect artists so much, and I absolutely love music as the ultimate art.
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I'm still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music.
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The only reason to do this job is because I love playing my music. And I love my bandmates.
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When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.
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I'm only worried about what I'm doing or how I present music. I just try to do things I want to listen to, and I think that's what everybody else is try doing, too.
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I do like pop music. It's that certain thing that it gives you: the adrenaline rush, that instant gratification.
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Thank you gospelmusicassoc for having me be a part this year.
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I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' I said, 'Well then, I'll beat my head against that wall.' I quite literally began hitting things, and developed a music of percussion that involved noises.
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It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways.
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It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.
