Music Quotes
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In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.
Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers
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We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.
Twyla Tharp
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I think music and laughter are the two things that can keep you alive. Someone who is really depressed, tell them a joke, and they may come out of it for even just a moment. Or play them something.
Nell Carter
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Music in general is looking for something new overall.
Les Claypool
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I always think of albums as the format. I think it's perfect. I don't think you can tamper with that. It's not just sound, the analog, which is so much richer. It's the format. You're constrained by just 45 minutes, and it's perfect to me. I don't want to listen to any more than, and I live and breathe music.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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I'm known for mushy music.
Johnny Mathis
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I'm always interested in seeing how other artists work. I want to know what their working patterns are. I even like to know if they listen to music when they draw or what time of day they draw, even materials they use, what they research, if they use photographs.
Marcel Dzama
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With 'Location' and all the other songs around it, my music turned into therapy for others. And that's something I really love and am blown away by.
Khalid
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
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They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker
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People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.
Johnny Kelly Black Label Society
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I just do what I do. I like to make music.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.
Sia LSD
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Understanding music simply means not being irritated or puzzled by it.
Charles Rosen
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There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.
M. F. K. Fisher
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I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.
Joyce DiDonato
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There's only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that's 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash. That's exceptional. There is no music video I can think of apart from that one that really reaches you inside.
Anton Corbijn
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When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.
Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
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I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
Ken Burns
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Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
John Lithgow
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When seen as a whole, art derives from a person's desire to communicate himself to another. I do not believe in an art which is not forced into existence by a human being’s desire to open his heart. All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
Edvard Munch
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I'm just trying to be an example for all the young artists that are becoming artists every day and working on their craft and trying to help them avoid the pitfalls of the upper management in music and the non-music side of music.
Chance The Rapper
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I was able to believe when everything looked really dark and gray. I had a little break where the music carried me through. I love the music and performing this program. It's always so special to me no matter what happens. It goes beyond an athletic event and just becomes an emotional experience. I was able to attack the rest of the program.
Sasha Cohen
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I have a very strong identity that connects me to Argentina and to Latin America, but at the same time, I have a deep connection to the music from the United States and music from Europe, too.
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo