Music Quotes
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Music is so intimate and so personal that when you can find somebody that feels the same way about it that you do, it's magic. It can be. It really can be.
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Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.
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The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
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Music is like a language: you cannot understand it unless you learn it, or more accurately, are born into it.
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A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.
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Everybody has they're own audience you know what I'm saying. I write rhymes and make music for the people that I fell wanna hear my music. They write rhymes and make music for the people they feel wanna hear they're music.
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Music was the voice I didn't have.
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I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wanting to say something. Once I've run out of things to say, I'll be done.
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I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.
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With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.
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I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.
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I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.
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I was like, "Who the hell is Bob Dylan?" I was going to learn one song to appease my mom and alphabetically the first song in the book was "Absolutely Sweet Marie." When I heard it, it was like "Oh, there is something going on here. It's not like my parents' boring music that I don't care about. This is totally electrifying."
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Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!
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Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.
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If people don't like it my music now, they will.
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My label can mold me into whatever they want me to be. Even with my own style of music, it's pretty much universal. Anybody can listen to it and find something that they like on it. I never really got pressured to be a certain way.
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I sat on the bench outside of class today and talked to Jon. I read to him from my journal, it was the part about the accordian player I was watching on the street last weekend. He said that an accordian is such a perfect metaphor for Love, because you are always opening, and closing, shifting, and getting air, and that's how the music happens. True.
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The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.
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I love rap music.
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My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
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Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.
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Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.
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Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.
