Music Quotes
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My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.
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It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.
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Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance.
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If I had not discovered the music, I would probably have been in prison today, if I had lived until now. At the same time, if I had not gone to school, I would not have discovered the music.
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Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
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In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you're not good at guitar.
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I think it is tiring to listen to digital music for too long.
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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.
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When my parents got divorced, I wanted to spend my time laying in the garage listening to the washer and dryer. Loud, immersive, changing. It was music to me.
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I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not, our shows are very physical. Sports is a very physical thing, too.
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Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
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When I was younger, I just liked the sound of different accents, and I used to just play around to see if I could do things. I hear accents like music, so that's what helps me to learn them.
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I wanted to make sure that I record music in hopes that there would be someone out there listening that maybe would inspire them.
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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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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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With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.
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Musically Bob Dylan is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
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I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.
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I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon-string guitar hanging on the wall in my house and a bunch of classical guitar books to grab. I kind of do that just for fun.
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I was fortunate enough to take classes with Mel Powell at Yale University as well as a semester with Sam Adler at the Eastman School of Music. From Mel I learned to appreciate improvisatory ingenuity and from Sam rhythmic athleticism.
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We are making music for people who can listen to what we are talking about, which is generally an emotional, real life feeling and relate it back to their own lives. There is something about the boundaries that need to be concise to be able to deliver that message.
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The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.
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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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I'm really excited to put music out that is a clear projection of my lifestyle.
