Music Quotes
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Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music.
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Music is too important to be left to professionals.
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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 danced with passion to spite the music.
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English and world music were something that I had immense love for, and to get together with a fellow Indian and bring this sound and vibe to the world feels great.
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Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.
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We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it.
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Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.
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All my musical influences came from my mom, who did everything to music. She played it 24 hours a day, seven days a week in our house. So that's where my love for music came from.
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They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.
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I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.
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Michael Jackson was my musical God. He made me believe that all things are possible, and through real and positive music. He can live forever! I love Michael Jackson. God Bless him.
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Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.
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When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.
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With music, you can put sophisticated thoughts in a child's head - it gives you a whole new avenue to express ideas.
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I always listen to music while I draw.
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Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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I always loved music, I just never thought of it as a career. Baseball was always my thing.
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To me, a lemonade stand is a metaphor for a gathering place. It’s like an anchor of community where, I hope, people can just come and be filled by this music. I want them to feel like they can just show up and be who they are, and be reminded of the fact that they are not alone, and reminded of the dreams they had as a kid at a lemonade stand.
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I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.
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Napster works because people who love music share and participate.
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Country music isn't about being better than the guy next to you - it's just making sure that you keep working hard enough to deserve the position that you get in.
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Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
