Music Quotes
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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
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Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it.
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It's not a problem if 20,000 people heard my music for free, but it's a huge problem if 20,000 people never heard my music.
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It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.
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Music keeps people sane.
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Music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.
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Fans make you understand it was more than music to them. It was a movement, a voice they felt they didn't have that we expressed for them.
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'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.
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When I do music I don't do it with a purpose in mind. I just feel like it's a little bit contrived if you try to do something like that. It's got to come organically.
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There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.
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I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.
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Music is like making love: either all or nothing.
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There's no place for Depeche Mode and the Sisters of Mercy in the music I make with my band. If I was a fan, I wouldn't want to hear that on a Black Veil Brides record. It was important for me and for the integrity of the band not to tarnish it.
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Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.
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This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-hop. You can't say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and mumble all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.
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I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It's really an uplifting style of art that combines visuals and music in very dreamlike ways.
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When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.
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YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed.
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I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
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My fans like a certain quality and a certain level of music. Once I give it to them, they seem pretty happy.
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I grew up in a very musical family, but music was not encouraged as a career. It was a hobby.
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Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.
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There is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by hearing people who can. That's reassuring. But it's gonna take a person - and I don't know who this is - to come along and reinvent the guitar as a virtuosic instrument in a completely different realm than any of us have done, or anybody else in the past. That's the clincher. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't.
