Music Quotes
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I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.
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Fans make you understand it was more than music to them. It was a movement, a voice they felt they didn't have that we expressed for them.
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I really like to absorb the project and watch it and work on the music a lot and just get the feel for it until eventually a moment comes where I know I've got it. A lot of it is trial and error. Some days a piece of music doesn't work then other day another piece of music finally says something and works with the picture and suddenly casts a light on all the other stuff you've done - probably because my mind is getting to understand it and the piece is educating me. I always feel like the score is in there already somewhere and I just have to channel it and accent it.
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When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never aware of it at the time. I just make something.
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Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.
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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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Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.
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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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Music is the language of the angels. You can hear just one or two chords, one or two notes of a song, and bam - you're right back there, you're right back in that moment, you're back in that day, you're back at that prom, you're back in the car.
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I haven't had the most thrilling lifestyle. I was a pretty good dresser, but I would have a pretty boring 'Behind the Music.'
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My fans like a certain quality and a certain level of music. Once I give it to them, they seem pretty happy.
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the octopus's secret wishis not to be a formal fishhe dreams that some time he may growanother set of legs or soand be a broadway music show
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I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.
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I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once in music so i think people will feel/understand my song.
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I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.
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I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
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I would never have been able to find my voice if I didn't have music education.
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The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?
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We must be as pure as our music.
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I grew up in a very musical family, but music was not encouraged as a career. It was a hobby.
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Memory for playing a musical piece... involves a process very much like that for music listening... through establishing standard schemas and expectation. In addition, musicians use chunking... tying information together into groups, and remembering the group as a whole rather than individual pieces.
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The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
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When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.
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When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.
