Music Quotes
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I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.
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The '60s weren't my cup of tea. I never bought that philosophy that, you know, we're all brothers and that'll solve everything. And I never believed that music dictated the times. I always thought it reflected them.
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Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.
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I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw 'The Sound of Music' at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act.
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Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.
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A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.
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Hip-hop has always been about keeping it authentic and being authentically you. That is what I try to do in my music and when I speak about the Bible.
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It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.
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I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.
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I think initially the impetus for doing stuff yourself comes from your love of other music.
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We were noticed not because we dressed and acted so strangely, but because we didn't. All the other bands at that time were concerned with dressing as outrageously as possible and dying their hair ridiculous colors. We tended to look and act rather conservatively. People remember us, as well as our music.
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I actually have been really influenced by dance music.
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Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
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I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the Dirty Dozen and all that.
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Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.
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Life isn’t a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played.
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I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes, so the music in 'Partita' is kind of like choreography for me.
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I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You see what people are wearing. You see what people are responding to. You see what the music is they're listening to. An exercise class is social anthropology: what clothes people are wearing, what are the new sneakers.
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I like my music to be like a buffet. If you don't like this plate, there's another one for you.
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Music for me, it's pretty annoying, because I've never had a successful solo career and it bugs me.
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Country music has to evolve in order to survive.
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People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.
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There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.
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My music already has this oldish kind of quality to it, like you don't necessarily know what era it was recorded in, so it all kind of felt surreal and weird. Night after night when I played live, I was really trying to figure it out in real time, and I still don't know what effect I'm going for or what effect I actually achieve. Looking back, I feel like it would be arrogant of me not to appreciate the fact that I've been able to do whatever I want and still have an audience come see me.
