Music Quotes
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If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.
Graham Nash -
I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.
Jason Mraz
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Philly's busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It's a place where people pass through and bands don't usually skip on tour. There are lots of music resources, but it's not too over the top.
Kurt Vile -
No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music.
Jhene Aiko -
A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
Confucius -
Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel.
David Bennun -
The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
Shania Twain -
People don't realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old music. People don't realize how much or how imperative it is to use actual hardware when making drums because those are actual percussion samplers. They're hardware instruments that are made to have the drum hit.
Adrian Younge
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My music is for real women and it's about real women and I am a real woman.
Brandy Clark -
I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.
Lydia Lunch -
When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.
Penn Jillette -
I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.
Kevin Gates -
For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.
Jack Garratt -
I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song.
Cynthia Addai-Robinson
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I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
Chris Stapleton -
I love making music, but I also love making music that's on the radio. In some circles, that is considered less artistic. And I've always tried to resist those people that say the two can't exist at the same time.
Kristian Bush Sugarland -
Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.
Caroline Shaw -
I didn't know music would end up being my job, but I loved it so much I wanted to do it every day.
Mat Kearney -
A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.
Shreya Ghoshal -
Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.
Van Morrison -
I've tried writing with music on, but I find it distracting.
John Grisham -
Obviously I've always loved singing and performing, but I fell in love with songwriting and then I enjoyed doing that for other people and getting coached. But then I kind of stumbled into the right group of people that really started to create some unique music for me and what I wanted to say, so then it made me want to be an artist.
Kacey Musgraves -
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
Peter De Vries