Music Quotes
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You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.
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If I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn't mean suddenly there is this gap. You don't get elected. The people decide where you are. Whether I'm here or not, if they want you to be at the top then the people will move me out the way.
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A lot of things inspire me, but I would have to say the main thing that drives me is music.
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I believe that through music we can help heal the world.
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There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.
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My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was always music in our house, but there wasn't much art around.
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I try to put my culture in all my music, as much as I can.
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
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I feel like, a lot of times, when you have a specific sound that you want and are searching for, you want the right group to help you put the kind of music out that you want.
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Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.
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When people get to see me interact with the creative giants, they see the perspective and the respect. A lot of times, people don't have that respect, from a music perspective, with the music people.
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Sometimes I look at music as like movies. And so I feel like you can have your comedies, and you can have your dramas, and you can have your romances or whatever.
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I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.
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I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long.
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Michael was a type of person the whole family went behind who crossed all borders with his music.
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I would do anything to be around music. You don't even have to pay me.
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There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
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It doesn't bother me when someone is totally unaware of anything I've ever been in or done and says, 'Hey, man, I really like your music. I've never heard of you.' That doesn't bother me at all.
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Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.
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To a large degree I don't even like most metal music I hear.
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Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
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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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Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.
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Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.
