Music Quotes
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I learnt that music cost something, and that's a good thing. Also, that I should exercise, because I didn't and I got very sick.
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I need weird breakages to happen for music to feel true to life, and I think that also applies to good film scores.
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How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
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I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.
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When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.
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The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers - keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.
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Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.
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In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
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My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.
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I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.
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I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
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Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?
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G-Dragon's music is like sushi. It's sophisticated and has different flavors. His music also changes depending on how much he cooks it.
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I think it's important to say something. If you're making music it's kinda' like, oh, cool, so is everyone else.
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"The Human League, Someday all music will be made like this!" — and it is!
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Music is about textures as well as melody.
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The Band mean a lot to me in terms of what I aspire to achieve with my group, as the music they made went against the fashion of the time.
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For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.
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I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult to discuss politics intelligently in a 4-minute song. But I am finding there are ways to get bits and pieces of political thought across without preaching that the people have the power or we shall not be moved. Of course these sentiments have their place too - I'm not knocking Phil Ochs - but that's a different kind of music, songs to play at rallies, not to achieve a state of bliss.
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If you can sing to a room of 60 people who don't give a damn, then if, someday, you're playing to people who really want to hear your music, that's not hard.
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When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.
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There's a lot of spirituality and hope in our music that I think people are catching on to. It's not punk, it's not Green Day, not Offspring, not Soundgarden, not Stone Temple Pilots, not all of the other bands that are coming out.
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I've always been a fan of Drake's. I wouldn't say I listen to all of his music, but I would say that I pick tunes out of his that I love and then put them on repeat.
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For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
