Music Quotes
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You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?
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Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.
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Our music is harder to play than it sounds. It's the small details you don't realize are there until you try and re-do it.
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I started off in dance. That was actually my first passion, which introduced me to music, which people don't really know.
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I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
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The music is what sustains the player from beginning to end. That’s where you get your life from. That’s why you play jazz.
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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.
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When you don't know your values or who you are or you start to believe things other people are telling you, you get lost. I was just lost because I didn't know what I meant to music or what music meant to me. Now I just belong solo and I belong by myself.
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My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
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I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.
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If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
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I try to create an image to suit my music. These days, you have to create your own personal brand as an artist. It's not about just putting music out any more unfortunately.
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There was a whole, sprawling world underneath us, filled with ugly, vicious, beautiful people. The line between the two places was thin, hardly a separation, and both ran on pain and blood and fear and death and joy and music. But for now, the sunset was enough.
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I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.
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Music is the healing force of the universe.
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I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.
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I still don't believe that all pieces of music are the same price. I just don't think that's America.
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Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.
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Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he's an inspired and creative musician.
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Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.
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The one constant in this ever changing music business is the heartfelt and “ear to the ground” Indie Record Stores that avid music fans and artists alike know they can count on to keep music thriving locally. I tour all over the world, and it's these Indie Record Stores that many times make or break a market. People will always want an “album” to hold, not just have downloaded, and Indies fill that need and then some.
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I love my pop music.
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Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.
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My medium is music, but my goal is to motivate people to dream.
