Music Quotes
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Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.
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I really just like making music. People call that 'work.' Like, 'Oh, you're going to the studio to work?' No, that's even what I do in my off day. I love recording.
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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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The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.
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I danced with passion to spite the music.
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The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.
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Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.
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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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Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well.
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This opera has got that, but it's got a huge range of other amazing lyrical moments, for the chorus, the orchestra and the soloists. It's the variety of the music in it that is almost the hardest thing about conducting it.
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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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There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today that music is such a part of people's lives. And will always be, really.
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With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.
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I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.
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There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.
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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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Rhianna don't want you to give her what you think that she wants. She needs you to give her something that's fresh. So you have to bend your voice and bend your personality and bend the music to make sure it sounds like it's new to everybody.
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With music, you're laying it all out there. They're judging you right away, and you can lose them quick. With the comedy, you've always got another joke to redeem yourself. Or, even if you've only got one joke, at least the punch line is at the end. Then they have to at least pay attention until the end.
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It's typical for video customers to often use licensed music - whether a soundtrack, background music, or sound effects - to complement their video projects.
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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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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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I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
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For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.
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Everything was happening in the 70s. We were coming out of a period of austerity and things were pretty dark and then punk came along. It taught us that you didn’t need to be a musical virtuoso to start a band – and we certainly were not.
