Music Quotes
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I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
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I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.
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I understand you guys know what you want and you stick with it. For me…as long as it’s soulful, and soulful to me is all kinds of music. You have soulful rock, soulful house…you’ve got soul R&B, there’s just so much of it. I don’t want to be pigeonholed into one particular genre. As long as it’s good, that’s what I’m interested in.
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I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience.
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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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Look at music like gaming. You monetize the game to all the people who are most engaged. I wanted to bring that theory and thinking to music.
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I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music.
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I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.
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I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.
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I don't think it's an artist's responsibility to be political all the time. I think your first responsibility as an artist is to make music that people will listen to and enjoy. However, I think that when you are able to say something that is moving and put it in a great song, then that is even better.
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The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.
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The awards are voted for by progressive rock fans, so it gives us an indication of where we stand within our genre. We are very lucky that some people like our music enough to want to vote for it. We are especially delighted that our music makes a strong connection with some people.
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I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
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If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to explain what a piece of music is like. You can't do it.
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You love doing music, and wouldn't do anything else in the world. But it's a grind.
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I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.
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People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.
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Mozart 's music is very mysterious.
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I danced with passion to spite the music.
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I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.
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Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
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That's always stuck with me, with music. I've never really gotten jaded about it. I've always loved music for the sake of doing it, and the longer I do it, the more I like it. Hopefully, I'll be able to have that same point of view in this business, or at least with doing this.
