Music Quotes
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Music has been a shaping force... music has been there to guide the development of human nature.
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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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Music is a vehicle that propels me and so many other people toward a place we might call grace.
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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.
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'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
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Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.
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Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.
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To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I felt about music to anyone else. To me, that's a job well done.
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That's the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the 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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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.
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Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I'd still love to make music.
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The whole point of an album is to understand the artist and enjoy the music - it's supposed to make you want to go to a concert to see them in the flesh and get the album on vinyl and be a part of everything. That's what I'm about.
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I love my music and recording people.
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I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation.
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I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.
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The truth is I want to make music that people enjoy.
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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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Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.
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There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today that music is such a part of people's lives. And will always be, really.
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There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.
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It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.
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I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.
