Music Quotes
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When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.
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When I get inspired, I give out free music. If you look at my track record from the beginning, that's always what I've done. I've never changed.
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The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.
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One of the great things about the Internet is that people are excited about music and wanna hear a random album from a band somewhere in Romania or something, and to listen to all sorts of stuff from around the world.
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When I was 18 or 19, I realized that everything I was doing was connected to music - writing, doing videos, making my clothes. It all centered around being an artist. So I released a mixtape that I made in my bedroom, and it ended up getting a lot more attention than I expected.
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To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you forever.
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So far I've been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.
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The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.
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I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream - we were all doing it at the same time, just very isolated from each other, all in our different cellars, in different worlds, without the Internet - underground in every sense.
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The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.
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When I don't look cool enough or when I cannot make good music anymore, I will retire.
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We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
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I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
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I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.
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We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about music education.
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Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they haven't felt.
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There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my small amusements, have created such precious art is my life's proudest achievement.
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I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.
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In my home, we listened to music all the time. I was raised through music, and I've been interested in it since I was three.
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If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.
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It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.
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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
