Music Quotes
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I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it's all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.
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I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity.
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I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
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What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.
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I wanted to keep the music very electronic, very filmic, and give it an almost sci-fi like quality. Music is a necessity for me. I go into the studio at least five days a week, every week, so once I had the idea and the template, the process was quick and fun.
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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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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.
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It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.
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I really think there are two genres of music: good music and bad music. And I'm just trying to be on the side of making good music.
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People who know my music think I'm the most depressed girl on the planet.
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I think that with the success of, like, VH1's 'Behind The Music' and stuff like that, the fact that it's so successful, it's clear that people are interested in rock lives.
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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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One day, it hit me that music is my calling. I just started playing and writing music. How, I don't know. I just started doing it, and then this big voice came out of my mouth. And it felt like I was releasing something.
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My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.
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When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.
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My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie.
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I like keeping music in front of people. I try to sell at shows as much as I can - setting up a distro table and bringing out crates of vinyl and some CDs. That's my favorite way to sell because you're actually face-to-face with the customer.
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The repetition, the process, hitting it whether you are inspired or not, deadlines: all those things are art school ideas. That training just slid into the music part of my life.
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They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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People don't buy music anymore; they're stealing it. But you can't steal a live show. There's no way to reproduce a real live show. So I think that when you put a great bill together, that people will come out for it.
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It's hella crazy being included in the music for the 'Ninja Turtles' movie.
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There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.
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I have to go places beyond music.
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Music is like the ocean, it does not belong to any one race or culture
