Music Quotes
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I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.
John Joseph Lydon
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As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.
Adrian Younge
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I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.
Ingram Cecil Connor III The Byrds
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And if God's good word goes unspoken, the music goes all night.
Bradley Nowell
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In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.
John Roger Stephens
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The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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Thank you gospelmusicassoc for having me be a part this year.
Pat Barrett
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My ears are open to all sorts of stuff. I appreciate some of the big electro house guys.I love their music but I also like a lot of the stuff coming out of the U.K. Future garage stuff. A lot of stuff like that.
Alain Macklovitch
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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.
Sarah Dessen
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Europe in general is a great place for me, but specifically Germany has been very good to me. Germans love classical music... Electronic dance music is massive over there, so I'm kind of the marriage between the two.
Lindsey Stirling
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I was always into classical music and opera because I played the piano as I went through school and was very interested in Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals and stuff like that. That changed into heavy metal at around the age of 14 or 13, and I dropped the piano and started to play the guitar.
Kristian Nairn
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This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.
George Crumb
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I think our fans are a bit like us — they’re very fun, like to have a laugh, like to party. I think that’s what comes across on our album as well. It’s very fun. It’s music that you could play at a party, but it also deals with teenage relationships.
Niall Horan One Direction
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Country music as we know it would be vastly different if it weren't for George Jones. He's in our musical DNA. All country artists will have to figure out how to even begin to live up to his kind of legacy. 'Honky Tonk Heaven,' here he comes... though we're not ready to let go.
Pam Tillis
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It's an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop.
Bad Bunny
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Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
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We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.
Jason Mraz
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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
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I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.
Azita Ghanizada
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I believe honesty comes across in music because for most people music isn't just something to dance to.
Amanda Lee Williford
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I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.
Bruno Mars
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I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that.
Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
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Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel