Music Quotes
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I love what I do. I love playing music.
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Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.
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When I was a kid, a lot of my parents' friends were in the music business. In the late '60s and early '70s - all the way through the '70s, actually - a lot of the bands that were around had kids at a very young age. So they were all working on that concept way early on. And I figured if they can do it, I could do it, too.
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Bad music can make you weak.
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Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.
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People showed me this way of dealing with music, writing songs, thinking about music and shows and our community and the fact that it doesn't have to be about being popular or fashion or making money.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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I always like to vent and tell the truth in my music.
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I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.
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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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I don't think it will ever be lessened. Because I always move on to something else - and the music that I listen to, that I ingest, is a lot different than what I put out. I'm always becoming obsessed with the next phase of my musical vocabulary.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Michael Jackson was my musical God. He made me believe that all things are possible, and through real and positive music. He can live forever! I love Michael Jackson. God Bless him.
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Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.
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I think there are more religious overtones in music because these artists want to be connected to greatness. What is greater or higher than God himself?
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My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.
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I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
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Until I'm over the hill and over the hump; I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want.
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I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about collecting and learning as much vocabulary as possible. It's kind of like writing. It's kind of like writing because the more you read, the more you hear people describe things. The more you soak in, as far as vocabulary, the more access you have in order to express yourself accurately and vividly.
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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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It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.
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It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.
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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.
