Music Quotes
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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.
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I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.
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My music is kind of laid back, it doesn't have super crispy, shiny production, and I'm not singing my heart out or whatever. But that whole idea of blogs declaring: "this is the new denomination for this sound" is ridiculous to me.
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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.
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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?
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When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.
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I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.
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I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.
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The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
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John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
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After being in a 'professional rock ensemble,' there's a great joy in making music with friends, without any release plan.
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No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.
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I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it.
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People like Prince don't have to care about anything, but they care because they want music for the future to be great.
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I look up to Mandy Moore, because she's really classy. But when it comes to music, I'm my own person.
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If you're happy with the music you're making and proud of it, then you have every right to be doing it and have fans.
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Life got very good - we went from living in a one-bedroom apartment to a five-bedroom mansion by the time I was in high school. I had everything I wanted growing up, though all I wanted was music stuff - drums, a PC, turntables.
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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 see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
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Silence is what makes music sexy. I just move blocks of silence around. The notes are an afterthought.
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A person whodoes not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.
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I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.
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There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
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Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.
