Music Quotes
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My music is tonally based. There is plenty of dissonance, but it's used as a contrast. There is polytonality at times and a lot of rhythmic interplay.
Stephen Paulus -
I am an indie kid. I made no bones about the fact that I fell into DJing electronic music by accident, by a lucky break, but it doesn't make me any less of a fan of that music, I just never envisaged... not through a lack of confidence or belief, I just didn't think that I'd be sharing the bill with people that I was going out to see myself.
Erol Alkan
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I get to play with pop music and mix up the style. It's fun to play with party music and nice to get into the club. My big love is songwriting. I write the lyrics and the vocals, and I work with the producers.
Nomi Ruiz -
I usually work with artists only, so I do my research on them first, then I listen to their previous material and watch interviews they did. That way, I could get a wider idea of where they come from and what their taste in music is.
Claudia Brant -
For me, getting my personality across is so important in getting that connection for people that enjoy my music.
Lewis Capaldi -
I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries.
Michael Jackson -
I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.
Eugene Chadbourne -
What do you mean, 'playing really creatively'? Can you give me an example?" "Hmm, let's see ... you send the music deep enough into your heart so that it makes your body undergo a kind of a physical shift, and simultaneously the listener's body also undergoes the same kind of physical shift. It's giving birth to that kind of shared state. Probably.
Haruki Murakami
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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.
Jon Oringer -
One likes to believe in the freedom of music...
Neil Peart Rush -
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
I think there is a fascination with choral music in general.
Ed Droste -
You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.
Elvin Jones -
I think the glamour of my previous life probably comes into the music somewhere. I think the contrast is probably what led me into the festival. I needed a little bit of that glamour.
Michael Eavis
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I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
Music is a vehicle that propels me and so many other people toward a place we might call grace.
Cathleen Falsani -
Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music...
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
Commercial radio is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.
Elvis Costello -
My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.
Nikki Jean -
It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.
Arlene Croce
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My label can mold me into whatever they want me to be. Even with my own style of music, it's pretty much universal. Anybody can listen to it and find something that they like on it. I never really got pressured to be a certain way.
Brianna Taylor -
What excites me is doing shows now. I don't really get excitement from doing music because you never know what your music is going to bring. It seems like now it's all for nothing.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin -
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.
Suggs -
It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.
Paul Horn