Music Quotes
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Music has always been a part of my life. It's my way of expression.
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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.
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Music is my best friend.
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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.
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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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When I write music, these colors pop out of me. It's hard to describe, but basically when I write music, I paint, and I add colors, and I add notes.
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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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Things inspiring me - good melody, a great bass line, a fabulous voice... by which I mean someone who sounds great, rather than does pyrotechnics... and people playing really musically. Music is endlessly fascinating.
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I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.
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I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.
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I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.
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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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Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.
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We make music for our fans, and that's what we'll continue to do.
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I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!
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Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
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Sometimes it feels like my story overshadows my music.
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Music is a creative endeavor so I feel the business around it should be creative, too. One size doesn't have to fit all.
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Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
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You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.
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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.
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A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.
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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
