Music Quotes
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My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.
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Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.
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Music is my best friend.
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Music documentaries are hard to tell, but I think they're an amazing vehicle to look at racism, our attitude to sex, the way we judge drugs. There's the ability to get a big audience because of these incredible, iconic, charismatic people. You can look at a number of issues - the challenge is to make sure you choose something that has all those issues. Popular music is like a mirror of culture, of who we are.
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You either have fans who stick with you, or they don't. It comes down to making music that people connect with and great fans.
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My style influences my music and everything around me.
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Music is the solvent to the world's problems. In many ways, it's the only one we've got.
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The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
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My way to de-stress is either listening to music or talking to my sister, Kourtney. She's going to teach me how to meditate, and that should help a lot.
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I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
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I believe that through music we can help heal the world.
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I try to record music that people can relate to.
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For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.
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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
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Love is music, and music is home.
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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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We make music for our fans, and that's what we'll continue to do.
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What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.
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Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.
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People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
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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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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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Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire.
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I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.
