Music Quotes
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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 did 'The Sound of Music.' That was my first musical.
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Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
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Music is a safe kind of high.
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I never wrote music for the mainstream.
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Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
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When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist.
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It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played folk music, old-time music and bluegrass and we started a little band called the Garret Mountain Boys.
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With 'Boxer,' we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn't really worry about what the expectation was.
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Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are.
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Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.
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It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.
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People define themselves to some degree by the music that they listened to as teens. My mom had Elvis. Me, I had 'The Who' and later punk rock. Kids who came up in the '80s had other songs and bands. It's a way of placing ourselves culturally and temporally.
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Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they haven't felt.
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Oh man, I love what the South brings as far as the soul, and I really have noticed from even the early days of listening to OutKast and Goodie Mob that Atlanta and the South has a diverse sound to it. You have bounce music. You have soulful musicians. You have artists with vocals who try to do different things.
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Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music.
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Music is a very communal thing, and it's been cool to see how different cultures have resonated with our music. It's been an amazing process.
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Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.
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Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.
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Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.
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Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.
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Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music and even movies, is that you can actually escape. You can go into other worlds.
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Music for me, it's pretty annoying, because I've never had a successful solo career and it bugs me.
