Music Quotes
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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 -
That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art; it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti.
Edwidge Danticat
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It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.
Jim Jarmusch -
I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.
Don Bluth -
I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.
David Lynch The Platters -
The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.
Pythagoras -
Music is supposed to make you less lonely - that's the whole idea.
Kristian Bush Sugarland -
Music reflects on who you are as a person.
Taylor York Paramore
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I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.
Jonathan Jackson -
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.
Pink -
Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.
Michelangelo -
What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.
Twyla Tharp -
The film world feels like a smaller world than music.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches -
I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio, I came there with a different mood. The musicians picked up on that and we kept on going in that direction. The music became slower, which gave the bass player the time to play more notes. In 1965 I named it rocksteady. The first rocksteady song was 'Girl I've Got A Date'. That one was still a bit up-tempo, leaning towards ska. It turned the tide and made Treasure Isle the number one studio.
Alton Ellis
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Music comes from a place we don't know.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
Albert Einstein -
I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.
Liz Phair -
Music is so much a part of me: my parents told me that when I was an infant, I wouldn't eat unless the radio was playing music.
Neil Sedaka -
I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'
Brett Young -
I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.
Christina Aguilera
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The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.
Jon Fishman -
I tell people, 'I don't make music, I make worlds.'
Adrian Younge -
I've listened for just enjoyment. I don't really listen to a lot of music. I don't really listen to everything that comes out because it stresses me out so much.
Wrabel -
I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting.
Lee Daniels