Music Quotes
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At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.
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Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
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I want to be playing music, and I want to be a great mom, and I want to do everything.
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Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.
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I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.
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I was raised on pop music.
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I had been listening to Jackson Browne, The Eagles, and Linda Ronstadt. Ramones was not my kind of music. Now, I'm a huge fan and I get it. I wasn't initially a punk-rock fan. Now, I can appreciate what they stood for and who they were.
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I never care personally what people say about me. The music, and the message - this will always be more important to me than people thinking I'm the best.
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I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.
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I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
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It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.
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People know my music from just rocking clubs because I make the music that make everybody want to dance. So when I say rock I mean dance.
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I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.
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To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.
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Folk music is always considered a good thing. There is a catch, however: it has to be 'real' folk music, anonymous, evoking not an individual but a communal personality, expressive of the soil.
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Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.
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Support music every day because there isn’t a day music won’t be there for you!
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I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.
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I see, in this life, the hardship many suffer. I see the joy that music can give. How we deal with all this is part of a preparation for the next life.
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You can't really imagine music without technology.
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YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed.
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I want to sell music. That's all I'm interested in selling.
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Dance music was on its arse before we came along.
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I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.
