Music Quotes
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Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
Ann Beattie
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When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist.
Tove Lo
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I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.
SZA
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Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.
Elliott Carter
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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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People showed me this way of dealing with music, writing songs, thinking about music and shows and our community and the fact that it doesn't have to be about being popular or fashion or making money.
Chuck Ragan
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
Ezra Pound
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Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.
Charlotte Mew
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This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.
Charles Gounod
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I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'
Jesse Stone
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There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but it's not for me.
Bradley Walsh
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I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.
Francois Truffaut
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Music has always been an incredibly significant part of my life and a meaningful way in which I express myself.
Nick Lachey
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'Twas easy following where invention trod - All eyes can see when light flows out from God. And thus did Jubal to his race reveal Music their larger soul, where woe and weal Filling the resonant chords, the song, the dance, Moved with a wider-winged utterance.
George Eliot
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I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.
John Darnielle
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I've always been interested in gaming, growing up as a kid. I played games all my life. So once I got into the music industry and I was successful with my music, I always wanted to get into the gaming world.
Soulja Boy
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The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating.
Li Keqiang
