Music Quotes
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What is interesting to me is what has happened in the past that has made me who I am today together with all of my musical influences.
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Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that if I could care as much about their music as they did, I could be useful to them. I really cared about their music and their lives.
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My way to de-stress is either listening to music or talking to my sister, Kourtney. She's going to teach me how to meditate, and that should help a lot.
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I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin 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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For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.
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Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?
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I started to see this common theme with the songs that I was writing or co-writing, and it all had this really strong, independent point of view that I had subconsciously been craving from the music scene.
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Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.
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Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.
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I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.
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I have done nothing my entire life but play music.
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I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.
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I just want to work on music and make some new stars. I'm not interested in being a star.
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My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.
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I believe that when you really make the best music you can make from your heart, it will transcend all of those stereotypes, color issues, everything, because music is really made for human beings.
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But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.
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Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is connected to the rhythm of music. They’re both about creating tension and knowing when to let it go. I’m always surprised when somebody funny is not musical.
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There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.
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To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.
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I feel humble that the legacy of those two bands is still intact. It gives me a thrill when people say our music has influenced them in some way or other.
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Our music contradicts our look.
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We respect people who came in the past. We grew up loving music, listening to music all the time. It was the most important thing in our lives. We have a lot of respect for all the people that came before us. It was so important. But you had to find your own way.
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Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
