Music Quotes
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Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.
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For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.
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I've got music in my head when I fight. I've got a certain rhythm, a certain way of fighting, a certain relaxation where I can let myself go.
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I danced with passion to spite the music.
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My dream right now is - and I don't know how to do it, and I don't know if it will work exactly - but just this sort of vague aspiration to start some kind of website where people send in their stories or poems, and me or perhaps some other people turn that into music. And then by the end of the year we make a record and actually put it out. Like a band, but the band is actually a combination of the musician and the fan. I think that's a very 21st-century way of doing it.
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The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.
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I think there is a fascination with choral music in general.
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Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to play music in a lot of films that I've done.
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Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It’s an extremely important part of what I am.
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I'm from a small Irish family of 10, so there always was music in the house. Growing up, my older sisters had things like 'South Pacific' and opera on.
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In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.
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Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music.
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Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.
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I used to consider the listener. But now I'm in a space where, if I'm not inspired, I can't really do the music. I can't feel it.
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I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.
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Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.
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I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
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I like to listen to Beyonce or any type of upbeat music when I am working out. Gospel music always motivates me.
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There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.
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The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
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The aggression. The love. The joy. The pain. All those feelings and emotions that come from the music are Chicago. Chicago pretty much made me the man that I am. It's in my name. I have no choice but to accept and embrace that.
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I think I'm a music fan before anything else.
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Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.
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I've always had some level of having to be independent outside of music because the music wasn't a smooth ride. We lost a lot in the mix: Everybody that I came in the music game with - friends I brought in with me - are all doing 10-34 years in jail. That's why if you want to get the real, you gotta get it from me.
