Music Quotes
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The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.
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My previous visits to Australia created fantastic memories, so I'm definitely looking forward to another visit. It is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I think every person in the entire country is nice. Seriously, I haven't seen or heard of a mean person yet. And they love country music.
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'Never do the dishes without music,' my brother Mark once advised me - the same brother who once ate a spoonful of refrigerated dog food to escape his turn at the kitchen sink. And really, it may be the most sensible advice I've been given.
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For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.
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Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.
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I don't know what's going to happen. I take it day by day, playing my music.
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I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.
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Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.
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I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed.
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I love Puccini and that oriental influence in his music.
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After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.
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We've been fully involved in making our music, and to be personally involved is what we really asked for.
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Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music.
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The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.
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Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
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As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.
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Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.
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It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.
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How can you worry about pleasing people critics and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the whole thing is motivated by trying to please somebody else? To me, the whole idea of what I thought art, or music, or anything creative was about pleasing yourself and hoping that whatever you're creating will reach someone else who'll see it on that level. To worry about someone picking it apart and discussing it element for element, and trying to knock you down or weaken it in any way doesn't amount to anything but a waste of paper.
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I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedly call it "jazz." There is this whole generation of musicians that are playing and thinking critically for themselves and making music that's relevant to today. I hope that's the objective of a lot of musicians.
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I've always expressed my love for fashion through my music.
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Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.
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Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire.
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The truth is I want to make music that people enjoy.
