Music Quotes
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"The Human League, Someday all music will be made like this!" — and it is!
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I wanted to make sure that I record music in hopes that there would be someone out there listening that maybe would inspire them.
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I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do. And at the end of the day, whether it works or not, I can say I tried my best.
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The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.
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The thing about a music career is that it ain't over until the fat lady sings. Look at all the times people threw in the towel on Dylan - or Neil Young. Remember when Young was doing things in the '80s like 'Trans' and the rockabilly album and being completely lambasted by critics who now think he is wonderful again?
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I love acting. I want to act as much as I can without interfering with the music.
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Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
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My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.
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Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor.
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Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it's fun when I get to be expressive in another way.
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I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.
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I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
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As artists, Emily and I rely a lot on what other artists say about people they work with in the music business.
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I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
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I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.
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Everything I do is music-related.
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To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.
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I was a teenager in the '80s, and I was always a bit dismissive of Houston, as I think a lot of people who considered themselves 'cool music fans' were. She was poppy, bubble gum, making music not considered very cool. But you can't help but dance to some of those songs or feel emotionally affected by 'I Will Always Love You.'
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Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.
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The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater.
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I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot.
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I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know – everything.
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A part of the popularity of these music live-streams is that artists get to sing their songs to the face of the person they mostly wrote them for - themselves.
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I don't know anything about the history of music.
