Music Quotes
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I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.
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My music is tonally based. There is plenty of dissonance, but it's used as a contrast. There is polytonality at times and a lot of rhythmic interplay.
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Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.
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Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
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I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.
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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.
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I have people telling me what I can and can't do, what music I can and can't make.
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My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.
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For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.
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Music will always be my first love, but it was time to diversify into something that had the ability to really create a financial legacy.
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My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment.
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If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.
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Activities that promote mind-wandering, such as reading literature, going for a walk, exercising, or listening to music, are hugely restorative.
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I'm always going to want to be part of music. But who's to say? This whole thing for me in the first place just kind of happened without trying. I think about things like acting and all that, but I'm not going to force it on myself. I'm kind of shy, believe it or not.
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I think that there is such power with the live performance of it - so much of what 'Motown' is about is the live performance aspect, really. The power of our production is really the music and the performances.
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For the music, it’s not about the individual - so the more you let the music speak for yourself, the more powerful the music will be.
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We cannot afford to have lies in music.
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I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.
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I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it.
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I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
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I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.
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In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.
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Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.
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I do feel like my music, in some weird way, is probably better suited for cinema than for anything else - I can't really explain, other than I think that music has been mostly inspired often by soundtracks.
