Music Quotes
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And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.
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My music is airy; it's spacious. It requires you to be able to rap and articulate your message over it. That's what the beat demands of you. Not a lot of people try to rap over my beats because it's a bit of a task.
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Me becoming a person, instead of somebody who just hides and is afraid, has happened in tandem with me learning to write music and become a good songwriter.
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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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If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.
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I like things that don't sound particularly processed or mechanical or made by machines. I like music that contains human elements, with all their flaws. There's air in it, and you can hear a room of a bunch of guys playing. Those are the magic parts.
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If I had to pick a favorite album, 'El Malo' would be one of them. That music is good old-fashioned medicine.
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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.
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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.
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I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there is power in music and power in our words and power in what we put out into the world.
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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.
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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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Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
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I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.
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I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.
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Every time I listen to Eminem, I fall in love with music all over again.
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I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community are uncool and not part of the mainstream culture.
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Music is a safe kind of high.
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A lot of my friends hate my music. I have weird taste.
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I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.
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I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.
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There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.
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There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and I'd say, 'I'm not a pop star! I want to be a respected musician!' But I think people have changed the way they think about it.
