Music Quotes
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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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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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Country music isn't about being better than the guy next to you - it's just making sure that you keep working hard enough to deserve the position that you get in.
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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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I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody.
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The media themselves are the avant-garde of our society. Avant-garde no longer exists in painting, music and poetry, it's the media themselves.
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When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.
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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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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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Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault.
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My dream is to be in a place where I can do shows internationally and have music be the only thing I'm doing.
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
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The relation of the performance of music to sound is complex and ambiguous: this is what makes possible Mark Twain's joke that Wagner is better than he sounds.
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The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
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One likes to believe in the freedom of music...
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The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?
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Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.
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I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?
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I'm really into old school music when hip-hop first came out with Common, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, and Run DMC. I'm really into that! Hip-hop these days isn't the same and doesn't have the same sound anymore. I'd rather listen to the old school hip-hop.
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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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I just want to work on music and make some new stars. I'm not interested in being a star.
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The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.
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We care if people like what we did. If you're just making records for yourself, why put them out and do all these interviews and do touring? I'm a huge music fan, and this is what I do with my artistic time. It's all I really do, except hang out with my family. I value human relationships, and it's a way for me to interact with the world and feel like I'm part of something.
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I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.
