Music Quotes
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Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.
Ezra Koenig
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When The B-52s started in the late '70s, music and the business was totally different. Obviously, it's easier for everyone to be able to work with music, record, and get good quality.
Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
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When people get to see me interact with the creative giants, they see the perspective and the respect. A lot of times, people don't have that respect, from a music perspective, with the music people.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.
Jonathan Davis
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There seems to be a contradiction in the fact that there's more music around and more channels or downloading music or more channels on TV, and yet at the same time, in some ways it doesn't seem to be as vital as it once was. It seems to be just another entertainment option or lifestyle enhancement aid or something.
Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
Harry Shearer
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We are journeying externally from country to country. We are traveling in historical time, from the present to the distant past. We are traveling inwardly as well, through the music of meditation.
Paul Horn
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In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.
Vernon Reid
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Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
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In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
George Szell
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I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
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I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician.
Anna Meredith
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I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance.
Steven Soderbergh
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May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
George Eliot
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I think just the fact that we’re still excited for music after all this time and the way he approaches crafting a song has changed over the years and will probably change again. He’s so prolific, and a lot of times there’s already modules waiting to go in. It’s very crafty.
Patrick George Wilson Weezer
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With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.
Aldis Hodge
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All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?
James Hubert Blake
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I love pop music. I've tried to always be honest about that.
Kelsea Ballerini
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India is a musical country, so it would appear obvious to use our collective passion for music to promote a book.
Amish Tripathi
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I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.
Ernest Dowson
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Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.
Paul Weller Incognito
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Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.
Tom Scholz Boston
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When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.
Ernest Jennings Ford
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I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.
Miguel