Music Quotes
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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
Walt Whitman
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When my parents got divorced, I wanted to spend my time laying in the garage listening to the washer and dryer. Loud, immersive, changing. It was music to me.
Brian Reitzell
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If you can sing to a room of 60 people who don't give a damn, then if, someday, you're playing to people who really want to hear your music, that's not hard.
Ashley McBryde
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Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.
James G. Frazer
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I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'
Josh Klinghoffer
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!
William Shakespeare
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I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.
Leon Theremin
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I'm glad if people can listen to some music and maybe fix some prejudices of their own, just by thinking.
Nellie McKay
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I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.
Lenny Abrahamson
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Growing up, people are like, 'Mary, we'll see you at the Grammys.' You're like, 'I'll be at the Grammys.' Then, you're actually at the Grammys! That actually is happening; it's not just something people are saying because they like your music. It's real!
Mary Lambert
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The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.
Nicholson Baker
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The music industry is very small.
Rita Ora
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My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in a live concert.
Adnan Sami
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Don't get me wrong: there are aspects of buying music online that I love. Instantly being able to hear a song the moment it crosses your mind? Where's the downside? However, I do feel for those too young to remember the thrill of going record shopping.
John Niven
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I love rap music.
Chumlee
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It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.
M. Ward
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My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.
Trent Reznor
Nine Inch Nails
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If you go to pretty much everywhere in the developing world, you will find Bob Marley murals, and you'll find people playing his music.
Kevin Macdonald
