Music Quotes
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With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.
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When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
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Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.
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I have my own label which releases some very nice music, it’s called 99 Times out of 10 Records.
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The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
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There’s a lot of pressure on women in music. Even if we’ve done the most incredible things, there’s always that smidge of insecurity. It’s like trying to train yourself to groom your ego a bit and tell yourself that you are enough.
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It was like how, when he read a poem to himself, the rhymes were neither sound nor silence. Unheard melodies in the mind’s ear. The muted music of consciousness.
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Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young.
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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
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Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
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The reason why rappers are living in - you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz's and living in neighborhoods is because they're selling their music, not just to the black community, but to the white community.
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Sports is part of the pop culture landscape in this country, just like music and television and movies.
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Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.
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I still love making music. And I still love performing for my fans. I'd like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin.
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We want people to enjoy our music.
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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.
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A lot of things inspire me, but I would have to say the main thing that drives me is music.
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Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.
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I think Depeche Mode music somehow appeals to the oddball, to the person who is looking for something a little bit different.
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I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.
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I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.
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When you go into the whole realm of creating your own music and seeing the project through, it's increasingly difficult because nowadays a lot of people are making music all on their own - the individual instead of the band. And when you have such a solid vision and you spend so much time working on one idea and allowing it to manifest in your mind through a record, and then you have to go and find people to help you see it through live, it gets really overwhelming, to have to project and really clearly state what you're trying to do and how you want them to do it.
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African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.
