Music Quotes
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I'm just trying to make the kind of music that I'd listen to as a teenager and forget about all my problems.
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Music excites me, inspires me, fuels me! I listen to music every single day.
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Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.
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I decided right away that whomever was going to advise me had to be fundamentally interested in music. This protected me from the skullduggery common to the music industry then and that still exists today. Of course, using this method meant that some things we didn't know and just had to learn how to do it together.
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I've realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don't have to wait for anybody's permission to do.
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Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.
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I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.
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One thing about Foster the People is that it's taking pieces of a lot of different genres of music and kind of melding them together.
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You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that: ‘Don’t do music, you’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art, you won’t be an artist.’ Benign advice — now, profoundly mistaken.
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When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.
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For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
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I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.
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I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.
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Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.
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Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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Sufis were always spreading love with their music, and if some kind of extremism is a threat to it, it is a threat to all humanity.
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Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.
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Good music is good music and that should be enough for anybody.
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When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'
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When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music.
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I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.
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I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.
