Music Quotes
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Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.
Evan Parker
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The movement is stronger, what is happening is like everyone is sharing the music with their peers that are not Africans, more clubs are playing the songs, so people are consuming the music in larger numbers.
Wurld
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Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.
Nat Hentoff
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My music is for real women and it's about real women and I am a real woman.
Brandy Clark
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I liked being challenged by music. It's good for me.
Al Kooper
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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.
Jason Aldean
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Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.
Gwen Stefani
No Doubt
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Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.
Steve Jobs
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One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
Bonnie Raitt
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I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey
Bananarama
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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.
Cynthia Erivo
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
George William Curtis
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I've been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so many great blues and soul artists that I completely revere. So it's strange for me, actually, to hear somebody say, 'Oh, I was deeply influenced by your music.'
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.
Blake Judd
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Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.
Kelela Mizanekristos
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As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.
Tara Leigh Patrick
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I like to listen to Beyonce or any type of upbeat music when I am working out. Gospel music always motivates me.
Simone Manuel
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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.
Slash
Guns N' Roses
