Music Quotes
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I loved traditional musical comedy. That was my passion. Then 'Spring Awakening' happened, and it took that rock n' roll and pop music to change gears for me.
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I've been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be.
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With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.
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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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I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across the bridge or the way silence can thin or thicken before music starts - all these things have to be harnessed by the political. The libidinal has to be harnessed by the political.
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I think we tend to write more uplifting and vibrant music when we're in bleak and lonely surroundings. I think it's because you're channeling your loneliness in a way that you're trying to escape to your situation.
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Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.
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If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.
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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 am passionate about making music that feeds the soul and brings people together.
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I still don't know how to read music.
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I love synthesizers and I love electronic music and I love the avant garde and I always want to try and have some kind of element of that in the music. So once the music is put down and recorded, that's when I start to tinker with it using synths.
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In my home, I listen to music; I play music: I play guitar and I play ukelele. And I swim and I ride a bike and I do all the things that everybody else does.
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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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Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.
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I really just like making music. People call that 'work.' Like, 'Oh, you're going to the studio to work?' No, that's even what I do in my off day. I love recording.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!
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If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.
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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
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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 only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.
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Sometimes, I make music in my sleep. So I get up, put on my headphones, and compose it on the piano.
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I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does all art in my music, because there's stories, there's acts, there's moods, there's dynamics, there's moodiness, emotion. All of those things that play into a film. I think that could equally be said about music. It definitely informs me. Beats is stories.
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We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.
