Music Quotes
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I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.
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I was raised around music.
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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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I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.
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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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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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I'm sure that a lot of my friends - even though they're curious about the music of nations that are not on their radar - still don't know what Kuwaiti music sounds like.
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Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.
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If you look before the '90s, you might not find many - if any - albums with multiple producers. It just didn't exist in the history of music. That would have been like Michael Jackson telling Quincy Jones, 'Look man, I know we did well on 'Off The Wall,' but I'm hot now, and I need to see some other producers for 'Thriller.''
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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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Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.
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Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.
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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
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I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.
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Poetry stands or falls by its music.
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A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.
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I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50 years ago, I would have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produce everything I needed with live instrumentalists, so I don't need electronics.
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I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.
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Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.
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The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.
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People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.
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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 am passionate about music and my work to the bottom of my very soul, but I also very much enjoy good clothes and some of the finer things in life. Rappers do, too, and perhaps it's one of the reasons I've been welcomed so warmly into their world.
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Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.
