Music Quotes
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Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.
John Joseph Lydon
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But I'm really into old music - bluesy, soulful singers, like Etta James, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin. I wouldn't have minded being born in the 1960s!
Jessica Sanchez
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You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed?
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.
Jean-Michel Jarre
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I have people telling me what I can and can't do, what music I can and can't make.
James Arthur
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Music and friends are the most important to me really, it's all I ever do.
Zachary Wayne Farro
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One likes to believe in the freedom of music...
Neil Peart
Rush
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I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.
Lalo Schifrin
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I try to get out of a lot of things by just kind of morphing and and shifting - and that's the way I got into music in general, by being really into free music and improvised jazz music, and stuff like that.To me, the most abstract thing that you could possibly do in music is make a song that's under four minutes long. It doesn't make any sense to me.
Chad VanGaalen
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One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.
Mohit Chauhan
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.
John Coltrane
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With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.
Bonnie Raitt
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I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.
Bryan Clay
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Zach Condon
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I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.
Blake Shelton
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My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.
Lukas Foss
