Music Quotes
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I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music, it cannot really with comfort absorb large amounts of words. Not nearly as many words, that is to say, as a stage can.
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Usually the lyrics go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.
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You have to have a balance, and I think that people get upset about Hip-Hop and say that it's dead because there is no balance. It's just all this simple-minded music, and it doesn't seem to be any content, and the dance club music outnumbers the little content there is.
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Music is a mantra that soothes the soul...something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music.
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I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I don't think people want it at that level of intimacy.
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It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.
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Rap music was and is, for me, everything.
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Without music in a horror there is actually such a big part missing.
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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.
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We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
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I just find that with music I've always felt a sort of comfort.
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I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.
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People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.
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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.
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I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
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Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.
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Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.
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You are a 64-track recording - the tracks are always there, they're always with you. Sometimes the harsh tracks are cranked up and the rest are rolled down to zero. Other times the sweet tracks are high and the darkness is low. But it's all you.
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I can play, and I know it; I'm not looking for any pats on the back. I don't have to be endorsed by anybody. I make enough to live and eat, and I'm happy with my music-and that's all I need.
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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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Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day.
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Music can often say a lot more than words. It can transform people’s mood, and, through association, can define whole periods of your life.
