Music Quotes
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Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.
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The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.
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It's 2013, and you can make music anywhere. We've got laptops.
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When I was a kid, a lot of my parents' friends were in the music business. In the late '60s and early '70s - all the way through the '70s, actually - a lot of the bands that were around had kids at a very young age. So they were all working on that concept way early on. And I figured if they can do it, I could do it, too.
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I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
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A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules and you don't.' You're not allowed to have fun or entertain.
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At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.
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My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.
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I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
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Sometimes it feels like my story overshadows my music.
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The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered our daily life. The pressures of mechanization and uniformity to which it is subject call for protest and the artist has only one means of expressing this, by music.
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I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.
Colson Whitehead -
What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's labeled great music.
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Things tends to often consolidate like Disney. It's the same with music. There's Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young and Patti Smith. There's these three people that everyone seems to agree on. No matter what they like, they seem to like those three.
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I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.
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My label can mold me into whatever they want me to be. Even with my own style of music, it's pretty much universal. Anybody can listen to it and find something that they like on it. I never really got pressured to be a certain way.
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His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible.
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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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Sometimes I get too wound up in my chemistry, but if you play chamber music, it's impossible to think about chemistry.
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For me, food and music are very similar in that you create, you spend a lot of time making something, and it only lasts a few seconds or a few minutes.
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There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.
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All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.
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I don't listen to my own music at home.
