Music Quotes
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If you loved music, Lemmy was your friend, regardless of who you were or where you came from.
W. Earl Brown -
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
Andrew Mayer Cohen
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I know it sounds strange but it’s true. I mean that you’re open to life. You’re open to being surprised. You’re open to being changed by life. Most of us lose that quality in our twenties. I don’t know how you’ve managed to hang on to it, but you have.” The music was loud, and the people were loud.
Brian Morton -
I will always do music, and now - with where the world is going with social media and people dropping stuff for free and doing this and doing that - there's no excuse.
Christine Flores -
People would be surprised if they knew how shitty my recording situation has been over the years. It took a lot of work to make the music sound ok. Having space where you can't be heard is more important than not being able to hear. If you can't be heard you feel more free when you work.
Einar Selvik -
When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.
Aaron Zigman -
When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to the piano to try and figure it out by ear. When I was 10 or 11, I built myself a drum kit in the garage made out of empty laundry detergent buckets, old lawn chairs, paint cans, and old trash cans. And around that time, my parents got me my first guitar. A baby acoustic. I jumped between all of these instruments constantly to satisfy the ideas I heard in my head. At this young age, I realized that music would play a huge part in my life.
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco -
Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.
Elihu Burritt
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I've always felt that music is more expressive than dialogue. I've always said that my best dialogue and screenwriter is Ennio Morricone. Because, many times, it is more important a note or an orchestration than a line said.
Sergio Leone -
I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
Music isn't about music, it's about life.
Herbie Hancock -
You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Poetry stands or falls by its music.
John Burnside -
I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.
Lisa Loeb
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Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
Sun Ra -
If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
John Joseph Lydon -
One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music.
Chance The Rapper -
Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and you know it's real? Even though I'm an electronic artist, I wanna keep it real.
Eva Simons -
Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.
Shania Twain
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The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
Jonathan Davis -
People define themselves to some degree by the music that they listened to as teens. My mom had Elvis. Me, I had 'The Who' and later punk rock. Kids who came up in the '80s had other songs and bands. It's a way of placing ourselves culturally and temporally.
Jennifer Egan -
Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me.
George Eliot -
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.
David Johansen