Music Quotes
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Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.
Stjepan Hauser 2Cellos
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Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it's kind of relegated to the sidelines.
Adam Schlesinger
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I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.
Emmylou Harris
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When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
Ray LaMontagne
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It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.
Alison Mosshart
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The Copyright Act of 1909 set the term for copyright of a musical composition to twenty-eight years, renewable for an additional twenty-eight, and for the first time included under copyright “public performance for profit.” That is, anyone playing or singing a copyrighted song had to pay for the right to do so. “Had to” but often didn’t: many bandleaders—and the restaurants and nightclubs that employed them—resisted paying anything to copyright holders, sometimes offering the justification that public performances stimulated sheet music sales.
Ben Yagoda
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I feel like everything I write about is a gift I need to share because there is somebody out there going through a similar thing that might need to hear it. I know music helped me a lot. And still does.
Ashley Monroe
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato
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I first got interested in DJing when I was a little kid. I just love music... Music's my passion; it's always been my whole life.
Pauly D
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'Twas easy following where invention trod - All eyes can see when light flows out from God. And thus did Jubal to his race reveal Music their larger soul, where woe and weal Filling the resonant chords, the song, the dance, Moved with a wider-winged utterance.
George Eliot
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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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For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to be emotionally. I don't have to think about the tragic things that happened in my life or the greatest things that happened in my life.
Queen Latifah
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
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It's a job, and it's challenging. But I love music and creating. That's why I got into music.
Mat Kearney
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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!
Lord Byron
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My ears are open to all sorts of stuff. I appreciate some of the big electro house guys.I love their music but I also like a lot of the stuff coming out of the U.K. Future garage stuff. A lot of stuff like that.
Alain Macklovitch
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So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.
Joan Jett
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The cinema that I make is a cinema about people, emotion, humanity and passion. It's not just about what they struggle through, but what they live for. That's what I love. The music they love, the people they love, the clothing, the hair and the life that they love
David O. Russell
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I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. All that matters is getting the songs played well, trying to get them to sound as close to the record live, which isn't easy, because my music is quite complicated to play.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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MTV ruined music for us.
Steve Lukather Toto
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I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.
Lisa Marie Presley
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I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.
Francois Truffaut
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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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.
Johnny Kelly Black Label Society