Music Quotes
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The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.
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It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments in their timelines, encounters that were recorded and created music of lasting impression. In the jazz tradition, there are a few, but none that has been revered for as long as Jazz at Massey Hall.
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I think there is a fascination with choral music in general.
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I get to play with pop music and mix up the style. It's fun to play with party music and nice to get into the club. My big love is songwriting. I write the lyrics and the vocals, and I work with the producers.
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I have to be able to have music at all times - to shower to, to listen to, to warm up, to dance.
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We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
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If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.
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Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.
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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music, it cannot really with comfort absorb large amounts of words. Not nearly as many words, that is to say, as a stage can.
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Very often the music comes first.
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I love music. I love going out dancing.
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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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I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.
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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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I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.
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I don't have to support Bibi, his government or any other conservative organization in order to come and play music in Israel, for people who want to come and listen to music. I think it's b******t to ask me to boycott Israel and not America. It's interesting that some people choose to pick on Israel and isolate her... I was invited to perform and that's why I'll perform, as long as the border is open and I'm welcomed. I'm just coming to play.
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If you want to express yourself, it is difficult to be by yourself. You must have people around you who understand the same music. It is like being the chef d'orchestra. They need you, but you need them desperately.
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My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.
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I do have issues with the fact that music is so accessible nowadays. When I was growing up, we had to find our music; we had to fight for it. But hey, you live in the age that you're born in, and you get on with it.
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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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With music, you can put sophisticated thoughts in a child's head - it gives you a whole new avenue to express ideas.
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I trust no one who hasn’t time for music.
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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.
