Music Quotes
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I love Puccini and that oriental influence in his music.
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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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I am only interested in celebrating music.
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I want to be around for a long time, I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I hope I'll be 50 years old and still making music.
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When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.
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I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.
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I get way down in the music / Down inside the music.
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Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical perfections, can never have to us precisely the same meaning it had for them. We cannot tear down the barricade that separates the present world from things and deeds past.
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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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These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
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If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.
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We were a duo on tour, but it was his music and his songs. I was kind of his Vanna White/singing partner/torch-song singer. I was the straight man to his funny man.
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When Josh and I are recording a record, we're very mindful of how the music will manifest itself live. That's where we have to live every day. When we tour for the next record, I imagine there will be a new story to tell, and we'll introduce new characters.
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I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
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Music can often say a lot more than words. It can transform people’s mood, and, through association, can define whole periods of your life.
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Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano. What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again.
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It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.
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I've been very happy to see some of the success that I've had along the way in opening the eyes of people, especially people who listen to music.
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I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.
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I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.
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To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.
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I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.
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We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world.
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Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.
