Music Quotes
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I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.
Leon Russell
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I don't really listen to my old music.
John Grant
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I am a singer; my job is to create music and harmony. Wherever I see harmony, I would go towards there.
Adnan Sami
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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.
Haruki Murakami
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Nobody can hear you read music.
Erroll Garner
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A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.
Ernst Bacon
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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.
David Longdon
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I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.
John Grant
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I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules and you don't.' You're not allowed to have fun or entertain.
Andre Rieu
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In my home, I listen to music; I play music: I play guitar and I play ukelele. And I swim and I ride a bike and I do all the things that everybody else does.
Charles Dance
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When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me want to be a musician was jazz, and because I didn't grow up with jazz, I had to learn it from a very basic level. I had to go into the history and learn everything about the development of the music, all the players and all that stuff.
Miguel Zenon
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Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.
Carlo Grante
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When we started, there were people who made fun of the music we made, danzon, cha-cha,‘That’s out of style, But still we have kept on going. It rescued all that history.
Jesús "Aguaje" Ramos Buena Vista Social Club
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Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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I've spent, like, over a million dollars on that Superficial album, so you will not be getting new music from me unless you'd like to GoFundMe.
Heidi Montag
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Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.
Alison Gopnik
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Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
Harry Shearer
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Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.
William Butler Yeats
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All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?
James Hubert Blake
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When i want to hear new music, i make it...
Prince
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It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.
Jonathan Davis
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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.
Clive Davis
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Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.
Paul Hindemith
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The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.
Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age