Music Quotes
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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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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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The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it's been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.
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When I'm working, I'm pretty busy with that, but when I'm not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz bars and stuff, and then I mainly paint every day. It's kind of like a different side of my mind I like to use, and it keeps the other one fresh, and yeah, writing, I've been writing with some friends.
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I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful.
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WARNING: This album contains country & western music and may cause offence to narrow minded listeners.
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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 a musical piece is too simple we tend not to like it, finding it trivial. When it is too complex, we tend not to like it, finding it unpredictable-we don't perceive it to be grounded in anything familiar. Music, or any art form... has to strike the right balance between simplicity and complexity...
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I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.
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Songs say what our emotions can't. I love that about music.
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I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot.
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It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.
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Music is like therapy, you know? It's my escape. It's my way for me to express my feelings and my thoughts.
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I got FL studios; I looked up how to make beats and how to record myself, and then I just started making music from there.
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Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.
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I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.
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I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.
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I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.
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I want to be known simply as a producer who makes music.
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I'm not from a music family at all.
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A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.
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The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.
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In my day-to-day, I do a bit of yoga, I go biking, I read, I watch shows, I go to music concerts.
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It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?
