Music Quotes
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Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?
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I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.
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I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'
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OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.
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I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
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It always cracks me up when program directors or music directors or companies will say, 'Well, we did research, and we interviewed 25 people in our focus group, and this is what they said.' And I'm like, 'I've talked to 25 people in two hours! I talk to 50, 60, 70 people a night! Five or six days a week!'
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I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.
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A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.
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Music and opera are a big part of my life.
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I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.
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It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.
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DSP is not only a music director for many of my films, but he is also a very dear friend.
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I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
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MTV ruined music for us.
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I'm just going to do music and when I feel like I've gotten enough music to put an album together then that's when I'm going to do it.
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I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.
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I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.
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Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past – oh so bright and clear! – oh so longed after! – because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall – or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable – more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape.
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But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.
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If my life and music brings a smile or makes a difference in any individual's life, then there is nothing beyond for me as a god's gift.
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The single greatest thing about the contemporary music business is that it’s now easier than ever to get started.
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If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.
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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.
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There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.
