Music Quotes
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
Yoko Ono
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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.
Lewis Capaldi
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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.
Pete Burns
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When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainstream music,' because I was afraid to sing Christian music to alienate my friends. Honestly, it was going on 'Idol,' having that kind of exposure, that I realized there's something different about me. I just crave God being a part of every moment.
Lauren Daigle
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Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.
Chris Lowe
Pet Shop Boys
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
Gary Lucas
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
Jackson Browne
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
Nas
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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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.
Marc Anthony
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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.
Bob Marley
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Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.
John Fogerty
Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
Vaughn Monroe
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You want your parents to say, "Hey, I'm proud of you." When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say, "Hell, I don't need their approval. If I get my music right, I'll have everyone else's approval." I didn't understand it then, but I now know that's what happened to me.
Quincy Jones
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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.
Xavier Dolan
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All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn
