Music Quotes
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I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick.
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I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.
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I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more difficult. I mean, it was kind of an impractical career choice when I did it 25 years ago, but nowadays it's truly reckless.
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Music to me is a way of communicating without words.I think music is second to only smell in its ability to transport you without you wanting to be transported. Like if you smell your ex boyfriend's cologne. Like somewhere in public you sort of flinch and look over your shoulder. You wonder if that person is around. Same thing happens with music. It's really influenced my life a lot, even in times when I didn't want it too. A song will affect you in such a cheesy corny way, but you are affected so deeply in the moment despite yourself.
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My medium is music, but my goal is to motivate people to dream.
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Music gives a soul to the universe.
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Listen to and sing the music of heaven.
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What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, "Wow, what's this all about?" You can't really picture what these people look like - is it one guy, or a band making music in a garage?
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You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
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Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.
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When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.
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I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.
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That is the spirit of the music: to not leave anyone out, to be inclusive.
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When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.
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If music be the food of love, play on.
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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 always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.
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One of the best things I get to do is meet people that have been to the shows and listened to the music. I still don't indulge in the social media side of things, so that's my way of starting conversations - actually hearing people talk.
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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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Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.
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If you only have the mind of, "We have to sell this music and I have to make money on this music," then it's not really about the music anymore; it's about the money. I'm not saying I don't want to make money, but I'm thinking a little more long-term than just making a buck today.
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Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.
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No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn't tell what to say, how is someone else going to?
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The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.
