Music Quotes
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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
Maurice Sendak
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Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music and provides concrete examples of some of the best ways to present the music in the widest variety of settings-radio, TV, recordings, movies, concert halls, festivals, solo, small ensemble, big band, symphony orchestra, opera, Broadway shows.... You name it, he did it!
Billy Taylor
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If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.
Levon Helm
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I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.
Elisabeth Moss
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The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the American dream come true, and a major step toward democratizing how music is discovered.
Ali Partovi
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What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.
Twyla Tharp
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As we grow, our music grows, and it's very natural and organic, and it's nothing that's forced, which is really, really important to us because we don't want to just do something drastic just to do it.
Ally Brooke
Fifth Harmony
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To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group with two turntables. And the whole criteria of what that DJ would use had nothing to do with what type of band made a record.
Mike D
The Beastie Boys
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I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater, even though I didn't want to act. For some reason, being in Kansas, you can either be a graphic artist or a visual artist, so I decided, 'I guess I'm going to be a painter.'
Patty Jenkins
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I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.
Robert Trujillo
Metallica
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Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.
John Varvatos
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To do it always right, that is what music is to me.
Chuck Mangione
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I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.
George A. Romero
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Everything is so fast, and everybody wants to be stars and stuff, they're taking the music out of the schools and kids wanting to play instruments, that whole piece of it is gone. Nobody is taking responsibility to push these kids to want to do it. Nobody's reaching their hand out to it, and it's pretty sad.
Liv Warfield
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When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my head, which is in a different space.
Mark Foster
Foster the People
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I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.
Zachary Cole Smith
