Music Quotes
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In my home, we listened to music all the time. I was raised through music, and I've been interested in it since I was three.
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I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
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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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The Band mean a lot to me in terms of what I aspire to achieve with my group, as the music they made went against the fashion of the time.
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The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating.
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With electronic music, you are not confined to the acoustics of a concert-hall, and that inspired me to bring my performances outdoors.
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Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.
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'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.
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Popular music sucks so bad right now.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
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Much of my music is inspired by what I heard at picnics and weddings and bar mitzvahs.
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I make music because of the love and joy of it and I try to make music to take you to a feel-good place and remind you that maybe there's a brighter day.
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I'm not trying to unite Asian people with my music.
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I will always do music, and now - with where the world is going with social media and people dropping stuff for free and doing this and doing that - there's no excuse.
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As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.
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Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.
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My favourite scores, they have very little music. I don't ever want to notice the music coming in. I just want it to suddenly be there and feel something.
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We have faith in the people who support us. If they really like us, they're going to want to be cool enough to buy our music, and realize that if they don't, the record label gets our first-born child.
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To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.
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I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.
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What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.
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I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.
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I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.
