Music Quotes
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When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.
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I think what's keeping me making music - the money is great, but I make music for the visibility.
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Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.
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My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
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If people really like your music but you're not selling so many records, I don't think it really matters.
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It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue.
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I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
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The universe without music would be madness.
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You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that: ‘Don’t do music, you’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art, you won’t be an artist.’ Benign advice — now, profoundly mistaken.
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Popular music sucks so bad right now.
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No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music.
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The music became secondary to being rock stars.
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I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.
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Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.
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I do music to tell people my thoughts and opinions about life, emotions, politics, everything.
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Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.
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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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I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.
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Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
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When I started playing music, it was natural for me to make passionate, heavy, electro rock. It was in my musical DNA.
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I'm just trying to make the kind of music that I'd listen to as a teenager and forget about all my problems.
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My mom is an elementary-school music teacher. For her, music is an educational tool.
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My brother and sister were very sporty. They all did rugby. I was very into performing arts. I went to the National Youth Music Theatre. I was one of those singing, clapping children.
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Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.
