Music Quotes
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I get way down in the music / Down inside the music.
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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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I don't have to work with superstars - I want to work with cool artists that make super music.
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Basically, my mother is a piano teacher, and she actually teaches piano at Yamaha School of Music today. She's a really, really amazing human being and is very patient. She had enough patience for me, as a kid, which I'm very thankful for. She made sure that music was a part of my general education as well.
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To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun.
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We are big fans of happy music and stuff like that.
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Blues is a very physical music.
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The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.
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For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
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But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.
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I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.
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Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.
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Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.
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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
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My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind of stuff is very central to my music and my life.
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I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.
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I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.
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Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.
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The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.
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How can you worry about pleasing people critics and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the whole thing is motivated by trying to please somebody else? To me, the whole idea of what I thought art, or music, or anything creative was about pleasing yourself and hoping that whatever you're creating will reach someone else who'll see it on that level. To worry about someone picking it apart and discussing it element for element, and trying to knock you down or weaken it in any way doesn't amount to anything but a waste of paper.
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Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.
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Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?
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I fell into music, but I just needed to find the right moment to jump into acting.
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I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.
