Music Quotes
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Basically, great directors know how to combine music with the scenes that they are working on.
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Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself, and there is a discord in the melody of his life. If he can quicken the feeling of another to joy or to gratitude, by that much he adds to his own life; he becomes himself by that much more alive. Whether conscious of it or not, his thought is affected for the better by the joy or gratitude of another, and his power and vitality increase thereby, and the music of his life grows more in harmony.
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We were always around music and we were lucky to be in the right place at the right time, knowing the right friends.
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Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.
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Are you right where you so desire? Give the gift of music. Now, nexrt next time and the time after that. It is always a great idea.
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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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When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.
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I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.
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Every day FM radio ran out of hours, not music.
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I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.
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I love pop music. Who doesn't?
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And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
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I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head.
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It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.
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I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.
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That's all that matters in music: fun.
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.
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Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.
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I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music. My definition of music is "organizing sound and silence into emotion," and that's a very broad definition.
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Country music is - can be - a loving industry.
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If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
