Music Quotes
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Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is
Steven Siro Vai
Alcatrazz
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After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.
Hector Elizondo
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I think what makes his story unique from others is there is not really one piece of American pop music you hear today that does not have some James Brown in it.
James McBride
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LCD is a band about a band writing music about writing music.
James Murphy
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Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.
Estelle
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I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.
Elvis Costello
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Sometimes I get too wound up in my chemistry, but if you play chamber music, it's impossible to think about chemistry.
William Lipscomb
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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.
Duncan Sheik
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In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music is grooving.
Robert Trujillo
Metallica
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
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Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.
Sonny John Moore
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Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
