Music Quotes
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When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.
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I was raised around music.
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I'm very hands on with my music - I do all the artwork and everything myself - and the songs I write aren't necessarily the most commercial.
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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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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
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I like music and dancing.
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Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.
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There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
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Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.
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A lot of people think the orchestra is playing and the conductor doesn't do very much, but the conductor's the person that gives shape to the music, gets the phrasing, and if he has really fine musicians in solo spots, the question is does he try to help them phrase, or does he let them go?
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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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We can use music as a tool to overcome things. It was a beautiful age and realization for me, an awakening. I felt like my eyes were opened. It was like, you mean to tell me that I have the opportunity when I'm bottling stuff up, wanting to smash windows and breaking down walls, I can put that energy into a song and wake up the next day with that weight lifted?
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Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.
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I never thought we were a country band in the first place. I think we've gotten ourselves into a place where we don't underestimate our listeners and what potential there is for the music they've heard all their lives.
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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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Music reflects an artist's feelings and their experiences.
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Mission means inviting all the peoples of the earth to hear the music of God's future and dance to it today.
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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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The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered our daily life. The pressures of mechanization and uniformity to which it is subject call for protest and the artist has only one means of expressing this, by music.
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It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.
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Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
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My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I'm doing the right thing.
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I wanted to appeal to people who've never really listened to hip-hop or really given it a chance before. I've also tried to incorporate all my favorite lifestyle things in the music. Of course, 'Fashion Killa' is one of peoples' favorites because it just expresses how much I like fashion.
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I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long.