Music Quotes
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When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.
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AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.
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I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.
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For me, making music is about my whole life. The basics, the components, simple things - family, living, just going to the market and getting new fruit and veg. That's what keeps my blood flowing.
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I met some people who showed me a path in music where they were like hey, look, while yes, it can have to do with being popular and making money, it DOESN'T have to be.
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Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.
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I've always believed that you put everything into making the best record you can make, regardless of how you release it and regardless of the press and the hype - that the music wins.
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We cannot afford to have lies in music.
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Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.
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The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'
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I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.
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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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I took a page out of the U2 book. They've always had a universal approach. Nobody doubts they're Christian, but there's an open door for everybody in any faith to consume the music at any level.
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I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.
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Over time her inhibitions took shelter in the corner of the room and Easter allowed the music to swallow her.
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At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.
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Music is more Ray J. When you act, you're playing a different person. I like the music end, basically because it's me.
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There was a game that had to be played that had nothing to do with music and everything to do with stroking someone else and f—ing doing the whole song and dance that was completely foreign and, quite frankly, illegal to us.
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To me, music is a luminous experience. Whenever I'm immersed in it, life lights up for me, no matter what else is going on.
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In college, I pretty much abandoned music and started performing with the school's improv and sketch troupe, and at some point, that became my permanent thing.
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A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.
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Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
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When I was first going out to funky events, it was a lovely kind of music to dance to - it had such a nice vibe.
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Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions.
