Music Quotes
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I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.
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I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the board.
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Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
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Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
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With music, you're laying it all out there. They're judging you right away, and you can lose them quick. With the comedy, you've always got another joke to redeem yourself. Or, even if you've only got one joke, at least the punch line is at the end. Then they have to at least pay attention until the end.
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I like to think of my style as pretty versatile. And I'd like whatever I record to reflect that to be mostly genre - to be just something that people want to listen on to see what I'm going to come up with next. That's the kind of music I'm into.
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The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.
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I am a singer; my job is to create music and harmony. Wherever I see harmony, I would go towards there.
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Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.
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Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.
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I just think it's good to have a big, living, breathing piece of music that's not just songs.
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I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.
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I think Depeche Mode music somehow appeals to the oddball, to the person who is looking for something a little bit different.
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There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.
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I know I'm a really good drummer, but there are tons of great musicians out here and I was just really worried about what the fuck I was gonna do. It was an era in my life when I was dating again and you know, being in a band is like being involved with a girlfriend because there's a lot of time, a lot of commitment.
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Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.
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I loved music, acting, and drama, but these weren't something I pursued until I was 19.
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Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.
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I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.
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I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
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I have a lot of intention behind what I put out there. The reason all this stuff I do works together, the environmental and social, collaborating with ballet companies to score a show, the bike tour - all of that stuff comes together through community building with music.
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I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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I'm sort of a traditionalist usually. I love old soul music and The Beatles; I realized I was sort of trying to make music sometimes that fit into an era that's gone.
