Music Quotes
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My idea was you can't dress for the stage, you have to dress all the time like you're onstage. And so I would just always wear suits or some form of it. I wanted people to know I played music. That was kind of how you would find other people: you would just walk around looking a certain way and end up meeting someone who liked the way you look.
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For me, making music is about my whole life. The basics, the components, simple things - family, living, just going to the market and getting new fruit and veg. That's what keeps my blood flowing.
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I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.
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I wouldn't have met my wife (Rose Lane) if it wasn't for him. He gave my daughter Amy a job in the '90s. He touched me personally. He had boundless energy and a deep, deep passion for music.
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Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner.
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I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.
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The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
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My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year."
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Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself.
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I don't know what's going to happen. I take it day by day, playing my music.
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Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
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The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.
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I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head.
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I'm a funny person, but I take my music seriously.
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The singer is always an ambassador of music.
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Since we’re all longtime friends, making music was a good excuse to hang out together.
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Music is a tool. Lighting is a tool. Power point is a tool. Getting those things right is not the goal. God is the goal. Those are just tools. And we can real easily turn into worshippers of all the tools, rather than remembering that this is simply a tool to get the job done which is to help connect people with God and to help inspire people.
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I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.
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I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level.
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I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.
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If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.
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I just want to make music that glorifies the Lord and continue to see revival happen all over the world and to see people meet Jesus. That's it.
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Music is magic. It's my favourite drug: it really has an effect on me mentally and physically. It's such a rush.
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The music is at its best when people are truly digging in.
