Music Quotes
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When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box.
Audra McDonald
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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.
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
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Music at its essence is what gives us memories.
Stevie Wonder
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All integral laws of spectral lines and of atomic theory spring originally from the quantum theory. It is the mysterious organon on which Nature plays her music of the spectra, and according to the rhythm of which she regulates the structure of the atoms and nuclei.
Arnold Sommerfeld
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I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.
Alex Ebert
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Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.
Tim Gane
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But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with Christian artists. We have a Christian following. I love writing kids' music.
John Tesh
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It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
Victor Hugo
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You should listen to a lot of different music.
Joanna Newsom
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I've tried writing with music on, but I find it distracting.
John Grisham
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Music is like therapy, you know? It's my escape. It's my way for me to express my feelings and my thoughts.
Little Simz
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I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.
Kevin Costner
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I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He sounded so good and it sounded so easy, so I bought me a guitar and an amplifier and said now I can't do nothing but play! Really, welding was my talent, I think, but I sort of swished it aside.
Wes Montgomery
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When I started writing the music, I wanted everything to be consistent from the way I dressed to the way I presented myself online. I wanted everything to match what I was doing on stage.
Leon Bridges
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All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I believe that once I put music out, it's owned by the listener.
Sia LSD
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Where music leads, I follow.
Alexander Wang
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An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me.
Padma Lakshmi
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The story of 'Libra Scale,' the storyline was created first, and then the music was created around the story line.
Ne-Yo
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I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.
George Crumb
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Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it's fun when I get to be expressive in another way.
Bethany Cosentino