Music Quotes
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Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.
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I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I'm so bombarded and over-stimulated that I lose interest in the music. There has to be light and shade, and less stimulating moments. There has to be an arc to the show.
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As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose, Float in the garden when no wind blows, Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows; So the old tunes float in my mind, And go from me leaving no trace behind, Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.
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Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
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One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.
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Dance music was on its arse before we came along.
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It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.
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Since we can stream music online, it’s easier to hear music from around the world. It’s easier to stumble upon new music and artists.
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When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
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I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
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I really like streaming services. It's a great way for people to find your music.
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My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.
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As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.
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I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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When I get on the stage, I try to connect with the fans and offer them the best of the best. I want them to see it as a music journey.
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I was studying primary school education. I was going to be a teacher. I was going to get my teaching qualification and have that as my safety net and then tackle the music industry.
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I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.
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I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little daughter and I like dancing to classical music: Bach and Schubert.
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I don't think we'll ever get too theatrical on stage. I can't see us using exotic props or fancy stages. Of course, we want to put on the best show possible, but we want the music to be the star of the show, not the stage set.
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Music is the healing force of the universe.
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I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.
