Music Quotes
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I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.
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The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.
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We were a duo on tour, but it was his music and his songs. I was kind of his Vanna White/singing partner/torch-song singer. I was the straight man to his funny man.
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I didn't know music would end up being my job, but I loved it so much I wanted to do it every day.
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Electric Cafe is a project initially we started out brainstorming thinking we wanted to go the EDM route which means Electronic Dance Music and then as we were in the process of creating, the record started to morph and kind of take a life of it’s own so you still have the underlying essence of EDM in the record but it’s definitely your classic R&B music and you’re definitely going to get the classic signature En Vogue harmony. It’s very eclectic.
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It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.
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Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel.
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I'm kind of inspired by just all different kinds of music.
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I'm really passionate about music.
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I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.
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Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.
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Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
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Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.
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I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.
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I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.
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What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.
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I believe honesty comes across in music because for most people music isn't just something to dance to.
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Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
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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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My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.
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Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
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The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.
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Regular people don't even realize how much artists mean to them. Artists represent a lot to the average person. People listen to music all day on their iPods, so as artists, we become a real fixture in people's lives. As an artist, you can't take it personal. It's like your big brother teasing you.
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I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.
