Music Quotes
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I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.
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It’s so silly to me to have 30,000 people facing and worshipping this one dorky human who’s lucky enough to be playing music for everyone else.
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Blues is a very physical music.
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God gave us music, so we play with our words.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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I'm such a huge fan, and I've done classes of all Lady Gaga music. And she's just someone who evokes freedom and love for her fans and passion in what she does. Lady Gaga, I'll take you out for a salad anytime.
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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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Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.
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For some reason, people don't want to see a girl onstage. Whether it's a girl or a guy, if you like the music, who cares?
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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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Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
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I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.
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I've started listening to music in a new way after I started running. When it comes to running, I really got into the idea of track listings that way, too.
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There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.
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I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.
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The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.
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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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I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
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I don't think music teaches about mundane, everyday life. It teaches us what it is to be a human being.
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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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Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn't getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.
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As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.
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I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.
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If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
