Music Quotes
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I used to consider the listener. But now I'm in a space where, if I'm not inspired, I can't really do the music. I can't feel it.
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It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.
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I just play Cure music, whatever that is.
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My sister listened to reggae, and my homies listened to trap music.
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I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.
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There are days when I'm completely obsessed with Kate Bush, and there are days when I'm completely obsessed with the Eurythmics. Then it's Aretha Franklin, then it's Lena Horne, then it's Ella Fitzgerald, then it's John Legend, then it's Michael Jackson. Music, to me, is like food, so I feel like whatever I need that day, I can get from a song.
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A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.
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There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.
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Very often the music comes first.
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Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.
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Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music.
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We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
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I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.
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There is nothing I like more than pure underground music.
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Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.
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I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it's so important that we make art for people that need to escape reality for a second. That's what music has always been for me. It's been a way to tap out of what's going on in my personal life.
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I feel like music can be therapeutic for all of us - not just music lovers but the artists that create it.
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The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
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I grew up around fashion - my mom was an editor for Vogue. Compared to the music industry, though, I'd say [fashion] is a little bit more disorganized. But it's exciting for me because, when you're a performer, there is a fashion element.
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I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.
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I seem to be very attracted to strong female personalities in acting and music.
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The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.
