Music Quotes
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I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.
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I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all.
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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 is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.
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In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.
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I think I'll always feel a little in awe whenever I see someone in their 20s or 30s carrying a cello or violin case - because I know, if they're doing it professionally, how many years of practice have gone into being able to make music with them. And the sounds they can make just hit me very hard, and feel full of limitless complexity.
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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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African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.
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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 would do anything to be around music. You don't even have to pay me.
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Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.
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Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.
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You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, everywhere even the stars.
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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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I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.
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Nobody can hear you read music.
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Success is based on music, not where you're from.
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There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good.
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Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.
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The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.
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I bring to the music industry something that isn't over-complicated. What you see is what you get. But, I feel every performer has something unique to offer.
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My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
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Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
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When i want to hear new music, i make it...
