Music Quotes
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I don't think I'd ever apologise for music I make, no.
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I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.
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I think as far as themes, 'Hedwig' is about what music meant to you as a kid and how rock n' roll can save you; that is definitely part of it.
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High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
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If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.
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I've got to hear the rhythm of the sentences; I want the music of the prose. I want to see ordinary things transformed not by the circumstances in which I see them but by the language with which they're described. That's what I love when I read.
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I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.
Colson Whitehead -
I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.
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I feel like music will be free sooner or later, and I think I'm all for it.
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The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.
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You want your fanbase and new fans too, to embrace the music, the new music.
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I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.
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I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.
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What motivates us is always new music.
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I don't listen to my own music at home.
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Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance.
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I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.
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In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.
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A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.
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I've always been a fan of music where you can hear new things each time you listen.
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When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.
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You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want.
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Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
