Music Quotes
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I always related my favorite music to the movies.
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I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.
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One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.
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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.
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There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and power: through music or visual art, some event or experience decisively influencing their life, looking through a microscope or telescope, or just by looking at the miraculous manifestations or purposefulness of Nature.
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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.
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I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
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Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot.
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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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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
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I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.
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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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If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...
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Music is one of those things that brings great joy to people, singing is a sort of unifier of people, no matter what political place or original place you come from.
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The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.
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Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.
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I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.
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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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Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.
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That's what music has always been to me: a feel. I've listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent.
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When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of deconstruction of this thing that we call jazz - of course it's different than what Americans do, because Europeans have a different history, a different sensibility and so forth - the nature of the creative process itself it's the same; but what comes from that creative process is different, because you have a different history, you have a different society, different language.
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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.
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I feel like music can be therapeutic for all of us - not just music lovers but the artists that create it.
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Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.
