Music Quotes
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I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
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Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.
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I can't write or read music. I am self-taught and never learned formally. It can be a curse sometimes but I think it's more difficult for those who need the music to read from than for those who play by ear.
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When I do music, I don't feel like it's competition. Then again, it kinda is, but I don't like thinking like that. And I don't understand why they do that to women and, especially, women in hip-hop.
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OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.
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My mother said I used to dance to all this radio music when I was a young kid.
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I think my music tastes keep changing, so I think the music I make changes a little bit.
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One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute. Our music is not about me; I contribute one part, one experience, and drummer Terreon Gully brings something completely different.
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So far I've been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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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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Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.
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Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.
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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.
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What passions cannot music raise or quell?
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You grow up listening to Eminem; your parents don't let you listen to it - you gotta sneak into a car to listen to this guy rap. He changed my whole life, my whole perspective on music, so to more or less co-sign something that I've done is the ultimate childhood goal.
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As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.
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Spotify, Tidal, and even YouTube, to a degree, are vast and rich troves of music, but they primarily function as search engines organized by algorithms. You typically have to know what you're looking for in order to find it.
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I am only interested in celebrating music.
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You have to understand that your music isn't for everybody; your job isn't to please everybody.
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Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.
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Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is.
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I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.
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Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.
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The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!
