Music Quotes
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Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.
David First
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Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.
China Forbes
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I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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My first acting job - I used to do commercials, and I had done a couple music videos - but my first job job was 'ATL' with T.I. I auditioned for that, like, five times. I didn't have an agent. And then, from there, my life changed.
Lauren London
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When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd
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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.
John Cena
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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
George Bernard Shaw
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Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.
Ziggy Marley
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As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.
Tara Leigh Patrick
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We thought it was a good song; 96 Tears was a collaboration of the whole band to create the music, and Question Mark wrote the lyrics.
Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
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Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
Sarah Churchwell
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Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.
Bent Larsen
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Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.
Ezra Koenig
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In a song you can shine a light on a topic and with your voice at a concert you can shine a light on an actual issue or a person, you can acknowledge whatever you like with music and people will listen.
Jason Mraz
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I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
William James
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I obviously use computers. My car is wondrous. My phone is amazing. I've already talked about the music I'm digitizing. Technology is fantastic, of course.
Ian MacKaye
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I like to listen to Beyonce or any type of upbeat music when I am working out. Gospel music always motivates me.
Simone Manuel
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Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.
Thomas Carlyle
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I never thought we were a country band in the first place. I think we've gotten ourselves into a place where we don't underestimate our listeners and what potential there is for the music they've heard all their lives.
Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
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Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!
Mary J. Blige
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Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.
Herbie Hancock
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I don’t know that liner note writing is a career, especially in this age of digital music, where the deluxe packages that marked the CD era have become ever more rare.
Steven Greenberg
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Mozart 's music is very mysterious.
Walter J. Turner
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When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.
Bob Lefsetz