Music Quotes
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I love school and science; I also love piano and music.
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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.
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I think there is a fascination with choral music in general.
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At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.
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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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Any time I'm trying to find that groove on a big tempo song, I go back and listen to some Aerosmith records. 'Love in an Elevator,' 'Rag Doll,' all that stuff was really great music. It's something that I still dig and go back and listen to.
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Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault.
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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
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I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.
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People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.
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Every piece of music is not for everybody.
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I think that my music is really honest and I think I have something to say. The world revolves around so much negativity that I feel we really need something positive right now. I think people need to be encouraged to strive after those things that seem impossible. That is one of the common themes that runs through my record.
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If you love music, than you can play music.
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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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I don't have to support Bibi, his government or any other conservative organization in order to come and play music in Israel, for people who want to come and listen to music. I think it's b******t to ask me to boycott Israel and not America. It's interesting that some people choose to pick on Israel and isolate her... I was invited to perform and that's why I'll perform, as long as the border is open and I'm welcomed. I'm just coming to play.
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Before the whole music business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.
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'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
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That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.
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I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
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You don't change country music; it changes you.
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The devil doesn't stay where there is music.
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I've always loved music since I was a little kid.
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'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.
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The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.
