Music Quotes
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When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.
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Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.
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People can be quite cynical. 'The Kills are too cool.' There's been an on-and-off relationship with the music press that loves us and then hates us then loves us again. I don't think any kind of press is reliable.
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I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.
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You should listen to a lot of different music.
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Everything from the music to our clothes was truly authentic. Lisa and I were in my basement spray painting our overalls.
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I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.
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I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox.
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I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.
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I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He sounded so good and it sounded so easy, so I bought me a guitar and an amplifier and said now I can't do nothing but play! Really, welding was my talent, I think, but I sort of swished it aside.
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We're about music. We're not about politics.
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I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.
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To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.
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I'm not really good at writing sad sappy ballads. In terms of the lyrics not matching the vibe of the music, that's kind of the way my career has gone; everyone is a little confused about it all the time.
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As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of expression. I like to write music which takes its inspiration from poetry, art and nature. I do not care for purely decorative music. Although I am in sympathy with modern idioms, I abhor music which attempts nothing more than the illustration of a stylistic fad. And in using modern techniques, I have tried at all times to subjugate them to a larger idea or a grander human feeling.
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You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
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TLC always looked up to male bands. We saw guy groups could just go out and get the fans screaming by just standing there - fully clothed and with nothing but their music... We saw them as the competition more than the girl groups, with whom we wanted to stay unified.
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I used to watch MTV when they played music, and discovered Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Healey.
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My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.
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I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.
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I didn't do myself any favours. I would be resentful of my own ideas even before I'd said them out loud. But music was always the most consistent and peaceful thing for me. So I taught myself to be my harshest critic rather than just a mean voice in the back of my head.
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I made a promise to be as creative as I could, even outside of music.
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If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
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People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.
