Music Quotes
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When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
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Probably the art, in that a lot of the people who I want to collaborate with can do something that I can't do. Like with New Bums and Donovan Quinn, he is seriously one of the greatest songwriters in terms of words that is alive right now. So I really wanted to play with him to experience that, to play music with these really great words.
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My music's matured so much, I don't have to create any barriers.
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Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.
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Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.
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I'm always trying to make the music sexier with every album, every tour. I just try to inch my way toward just a little sexier. I know it's tough for me.
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People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.
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My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
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There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
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I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.
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There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.
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I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.
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The more confidence I get with making music, the more I feel like I can just rely on myself to fulfill me.
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I was in the back of the book in the The Reporter doing music.
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I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.
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The producer should decide what kind of music is being made, what it's going to sound like - all of it: the why, when, and how.
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If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
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As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.
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This is sad. I just think it’s a little ridiculous we are still only looking at the surface of one another. Red hair? Blue hair? Pink? Blonde? Short? Long? Whatever. We might as well shave our heads. Hair has nothing to do with the reason we playing music. It’s a style. Something that will never last as long as the songs we play and the words we sing. Listen up ladies in bands, I’m so proud to be one of you and I don’t care if we all look exactly alike or if we are all carbon copies of each other. We have things to say and it’s up to us to get people to not just look but to LISTEN!
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O Music! sphere-descended maid, / Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!
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Lenny Breau played more great stuff at one time than anybody on the planet... with feeling and tone. He was the best that ever lived, bar none.
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I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.
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I think it is tiring to listen to digital music for too long.
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Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.
