Music Quotes
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We create music to express ourselves and when the world relates, that's a beautiful thing. We're all trading off each other's culture, so no matter what lines you put--country indie rock, rap, we're all somehow gonna find a way to come together.
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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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High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
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You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
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I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more difficult. I mean, it was kind of an impractical career choice when I did it 25 years ago, but nowadays it's truly reckless.
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When Florida Georgia Line and Nelly put out the 'Cruise' remix, it brought so many more people to country music.
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'The Muppet Show' was huge. I watched it all the time as a kid, and I really loved the way they used music on that. I also remember hearing the radio in the car as a kid, like Stevie Wonder and Simon and Garfunkel.
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Commercial radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.
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Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.
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If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.
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I'm here to actually deliver art and deliver the creation, you know, wherever the music brings somebody.
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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
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I like music and dancing.
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Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire, For we believed in things, and so we'd sing.
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My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.
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I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like 'Pullhair Rubeye,' or something a little bit more organic than that.
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I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.
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I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.
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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
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Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
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I have about 100 gigs of music, and I'm always going through thinking about what song I can match to a scene and all that.
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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
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His partitioning of the octave in the first ten bars places Varèse with Scriabin and the Schoenberg circle among the revolutionary composers whose work initiates the beginning of a new mainstream tradition in the music of our century.
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I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.
