Music Quotes
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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After the success of 'Rumours,' we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By that point, the success detaches from the music, and the success becomes about the success. The phenomenon becomes about the phenomenon.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
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I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.
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I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.
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My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so I wanted to, also. I asked my dad for a guitar, and he got me a banjo, so that was my introduction to playing. I played it like a guitar. I had a few lessons, learned out a few chords, and figured it out right away.
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In times of joy and sorrow, love or hate, peace and unrest, music has always been an important outlet for expressing our emotions individually and as a nation.
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Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.
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I had fans, and the industry and everybody saying, 'Keep the Righteous Brothers going; keep the music alive,' and I really didn't want to do that. I had sung with a couple of guys who would supposedly be really good Bobby Hatfields, and I thought, 'Oh geez, it's really anti-climatic.'
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I never wanted credit for being a wonderful person or a great human being or looking peculiar. I just wanted credit for the music.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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I would have been happy teaching music in schools - I still would be, and I still might be, although I don't know if I'm clever enough.
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I like myself still kind of being... because DJs used to be the background guy - the guy who was just doing the music - I see myself more as that guy than being on the stage.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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All music is beautiful.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.
