Music Quotes
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Music videos, to me, are like an extension of a song.
Kelsea Ballerini
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There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.
Devendra Banhart
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My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
Amy Lee
Evanescence
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Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.
T Bone Burnett
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A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.
Confucius
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In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
Johnny Mathis
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I know I'm not the kind of music that's going to have tons of screaming fans, and I'm not gonna be everyone's cup of tea. I just want to do as good a job as I can.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.
John Oates
Daryl Hall & John Oates
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And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.
Steve Forbert
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I like to dance to Latin music, like salsa, like reggaeton.
Garbine Muguruza
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No genre of music is better than another, whether it's country, hip-hop, trap, classical, whatever. It's all music.
Stromae
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As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.
Frank Black
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Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
Larry Mullen, Jr.
U2
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Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.
Brian Joseph Burton
Broken Bells
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I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.
David Cassidy
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I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn't until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.
Andra Day
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Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.
Lukas Foss
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In terms of history, the influence of traditional Irish music in a storytelling manner is probably where the desire to do that comes from. It’s a bit of a lost art in modern music, especially modern U.S. music.
Ken Casey
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I want people to know that I'm not just 'Chillin' It.' I'm a real person. There's heartbreak and trials, and I hope I put that in my music.
Cole Swindell
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In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.
Justin Timberlake
NSYNC
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'Bad Boys', which Bay made when he was just twenty-eight, having never made a movie before, having done a string of commercials and music videos with artists ranging from Donny Osmond to Meat Loaf, grossed more than $140 million worldwide.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
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I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography.
Chris Cornell
Soundgarden