Music Quotes
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The devil doesn't stay where there is music.
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I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.
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The greatest music is made for love, not for money.
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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.
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With British bands, there was this whole thing about having something to say. But, maybe naively, we said, 'It's about music.' And that's what it's about.
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.
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I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.
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Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.
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The great jazz radio stations have a duty to continue evolving their format just as audiences ask the musicians to evolve. How do you do that with a form of music that has 100 years of recorded history? How do you also keep it contemporary so you don't isolate your listeners? These are major questions.
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The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.
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Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.
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Music is reflection of self.
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I just want people to hear the music the way it's suppose to sound, the way we meant for them to hear it. You sit in the studio all this time and make the music, tweak it, try to get it perfect. They should be able to hear it that way.
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Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.
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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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I loved being in the studio, writing songs and playing instruments, so it was like ‘There must be other ways to make a living in music.’”
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A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.
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It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.
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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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The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.
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I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I really want to say. That's super important to me.
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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.
