Music Quotes
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I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.
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There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.
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Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.
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I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.
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I mean, music totally comes from your soul.
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Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something
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Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.
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Why sing music that you get to choose that isn't personal to you? That is the great thing about what I do.
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I've listened for just enjoyment. I don't really listen to a lot of music. I don't really listen to everything that comes out because it stresses me out so much.
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To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.
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Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.
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I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.
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When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.
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I didn't want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, "This looks good!".
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I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.
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I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'
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I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?
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In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity .
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.
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My sense of history in music is much greater than a lot of people's. I listen a lot further back in the whole history of music. It's not just pop music of the last 20, 30, 40, 50 years. I'm listening to stuff from hundreds of years ago as well, because you can learn from everything.
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It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.
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Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
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When you go on tour, you get so pumped up to make more music, learn more about yourself, and grow more musically. It always happens.
