Music Quotes
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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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I grew up listening to so many different things, and having a dad that also sang, music was innately born into me. Going through high school and college, I'd go see anyone who came to town, it didn't matter the genre.
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If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.
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I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.
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I just want to work on music and make some new stars. I'm not interested in being a star.
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Real-life experiences will probably end up in my music.
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I understand you guys know what you want and you stick with it. For me…as long as it’s soulful, and soulful to me is all kinds of music. You have soulful rock, soulful house…you’ve got soul R&B, there’s just so much of it. I don’t want to be pigeonholed into one particular genre. As long as it’s good, that’s what I’m interested in.
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Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.
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It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
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Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.
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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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My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.
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If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to explain what a piece of music is like. You can't do it.
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I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.
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Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.
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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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Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
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You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
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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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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Rhianna don't want you to give her what you think that she wants. She needs you to give her something that's fresh. So you have to bend your voice and bend your personality and bend the music to make sure it sounds like it's new to everybody.
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Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.
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I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it's OK if you don't live up to the expectations various authorities have for you.
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My deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me...the joy I receive in creating my music.
