Music Quotes
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.
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A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.
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We get hit with the 'jukebox musical' label, but book authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice and director Des McAnuff accomplished a 50-50 split between music and drama, ... The music is very important, but the history of the group makes it a great piece of theater.
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I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.
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You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.
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Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.
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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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Music takes us where words cannot.
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Every piece of music is not for everybody.
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Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.
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But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.
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I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.
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People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.
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I stay up too late pretty much every night working on music.
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I would love to continue working behind the scenes in music - to produce and manage up-and-coming musical talent would be a dream!
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The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.
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Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.
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Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?
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As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.
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Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.
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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.
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A lot of people think the orchestra is playing and the conductor doesn't do very much, but the conductor's the person that gives shape to the music, gets the phrasing, and if he has really fine musicians in solo spots, the question is does he try to help them phrase, or does he let them go?
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Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
