Music Quotes
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A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is singing it. I think it's good if an artist can represent some kind of culture that they either aspire to ignite, or that they themselves experience.
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If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.
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I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part of a career. If you start out playing instruments you create a better instinct and feeling for music.
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I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come from a musical background, I've never studied music, and I don't know music theory at all, so a lot of stuff I discover on my own are things students would learn in the first grade of music.
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Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution channel for stolen property called the Internet. So there will always be illegal music on the Internet.
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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
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I feel like music will be free sooner or later, and I think I'm all for it.
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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
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I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.
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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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If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
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One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
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There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery.
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Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.
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You want your fanbase and new fans too, to embrace the music, the new music.
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I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
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I was in the back of the book in the The Reporter doing music.
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Music is my passion, so meeting a few of my favorite DJ’s and Producers have definitely put me in that spot. When I saw Ru for the first time I was also starstruck.
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There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.
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The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music.
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If you love music, than you can play music.
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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.
