Music Quotes
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There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.
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The Lost Music was his way of talking about the way he believed that old wives' tales and dance tunes and folktales were just the tangled echoes of something that's not quite of this world … something we all knew once, but have forgotten since.
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When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.
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Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.
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When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
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Good music is wine turned to sound
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After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.
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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
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I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
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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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I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun.
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I think that my music is really honest and I think I have something to say. The world revolves around so much negativity that I feel we really need something positive right now. I think people need to be encouraged to strive after those things that seem impossible. That is one of the common themes that runs through my record.
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I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.
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If you're concentrating so damn hard on a piece of mathematics or a musical - a piece of music or a piece of art, the restraint that holds the rest of - the rest of the world back off and vanishes in the rest of your life.
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I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.
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As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.
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All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
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Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
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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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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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Since we’re all longtime friends, making music was a good excuse to hang out together.
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We've been fully involved in making our music, and to be personally involved is what we really asked for.
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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That's all I know how to do, just make music.
