Music Quotes
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It's about the lack of control. You feel more sad than angry. But why Thom sings 'crushed like a bug in the ground', I don't know. "I hope I'm not sort of blowing our own trumpet, but I think Thom is probably the finest lyricist in the UK of his generation at the moment and hes always trying to progress, as we as musicians try to do ourselves. Theres this nice relationship between the lyrics and the music.
Ed O'Brien
Radiohead
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As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody.
Chris Stapleton
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My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.
Andra Day
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I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.
Roger Waters
Pink Floyd
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The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.
Etta James
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WARNING: This album contains country & western music and may cause offence to narrow minded listeners.
Elvis Costello
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The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.
Rene Descartes
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It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.
Johnny Mathis
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I'm such a music geek, a music freak. I wake up in the morning, I press play.
Jean-Marc Vallee
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With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.
Eric Whitacre
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I really wanted to pursue music, but all those other girls are doing it and it is annoying.
Alexa Vega
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I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.
Chad Smith
Chickenfoot
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Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.
Miguel
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I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.
Big Boi
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Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
Peter Tork
The Monkees
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A lot of my music is just self-observation. Like telling you, "Oh man. What did I just do? How much did I just pay for this chain? Why did I do that? Wait a minute." Let me talk about that. Or like, the temptation. Let me talk about that. Let me observe myself.
J. Cole
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I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.
James Hilton
