Music Quotes
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The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
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We're past the self-doubt. We just have fun with it and just try to make the best music that we can make.
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I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.
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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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For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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I am passionate about making music that feeds the soul and brings people together.
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I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.
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Partisans present some of the most refreshing music I've heard in a long while, uncompromising, very well written and very well played. It demands serious attention. I hear in these players a sense of common purpose and resolve, and a strong command of a dialect uniquely suited to this music. It's heartening to hear music that looks to find its own particular place.
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The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.
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My music is all over the world and I am now feeling like a bona fide solo artist.
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I've always been about wanting people to spread my music and share it. This way, it allowed me to adapt in real time.
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I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a sense of self-definition and also sort of playing music for music's sake and being part of a family for family's sake.
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I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.
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When you're trying to sell something -- and we took a fairly big record deal when they were still going around -- we felt a lot of pressure to live up to that and perform. I think that at this point, we're a lot happier just playing live music. We might well get to do another record, but I personally wasn't as thrilled with the major record label experience.
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I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.
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I like keeping music in front of people. I try to sell at shows as much as I can - setting up a distro table and bringing out crates of vinyl and some CDs. That's my favorite way to sell because you're actually face-to-face with the customer.
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The film world feels like a smaller world than music.
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There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away.
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Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.
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Blues is a very physical 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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That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.
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I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.
