Music Quotes
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John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.
Alison Krauss
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I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.
Marina and the Diamonds -
What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.
Ben Sollee -
Basically, I thought for a very long time that making music and art projects, that that was just something that I did, and real life was separate. And I'm starting to realize that the things that I do, making music and art and photography and all that, it's not just something that I do. It's who I am. So I don't think I'll ever be able to stop. It's like that curse that you live with, this thing that you love but you also hate it at the same time. It brings you a lot of joy but also a lot of heartbreak.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-hop. You can't say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and mumble all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.
Kendrick Lamar -
I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.
Priyanka Chopra -
I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.
Andrew Mayer Cohen
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I used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that.
Kevin Parker Tame Impala -
I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
Bonnie Raitt -
I don't put myself in any box or say that I can't work on any kind of music. I'm not just a producer that only makes urban music.
Mike Will Made It -
I'm kind of inspired by just all different kinds of music.
Børns -
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
John Joseph Lydon -
Music is one of my big orgasmic meters. I need it, I love it. I'm so happy when people bring it up because I love it. I need it.
Ana Lily Amirpour
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Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I grew up listening to the quartets and I loved that so much that I wanted to see if I could make music and make it happen. It was just a series of events ... me going to concerts and saying "I think I can do that".
Bill Gaither -
When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.
Patty Duke -
I had really bad grades in high school and didn't want to go to college, and my dad said, 'Why don't you move to L.A. or New York and pursue music? You've always been good at it.' It was the first thing that made sense to me and... It was the right move.
Mark Foster Foster the People -
Mozart is the incarnation of music.
Joseph Haydn -
Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.
W. H. Auden
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In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.
Lady Gaga -
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
John Philip Sousa -
I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
Billy Joel -
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
Johnny Otis