Music Quotes
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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.
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I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.
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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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I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.
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I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
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I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
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A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
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The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.
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I mean, Lady Gaga is trying to be a freak or whatever but that quality of being very meaningly and heartfelt, but also having a sense of humor about it, bands don't do that anymore. Lady Gaga's songs are cheesy. The Beatles weren't cheesy. That's the hardest thing with music: to not be cheesy, but also be meaningful. That's the goal, I think.
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A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.
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The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.
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I don't know what's going to happen. I take it day by day, playing my music.
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I think that metal has always been, in my opinion, the most passionate form of music, and it only makes sense to actually be passionate about what you're saying when you're delivering music to people, whether it's through an album or for a live show.
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I've always been into super upbeat, cute, uplifting progressions, but at the same time, I'm also a very dark person. I really like both sides, and I feel like I'm always trying to find some middle ground with music or style or anything that I do.
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Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.
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Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.
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Music is another planet.
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves -which is the same thing nowadays.
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Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.
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As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.
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I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.
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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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At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.
