Music Quotes
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The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.
Walt Whitman
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono U2
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I believe that through music we can help heal the world.
Michael Jackson
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With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.
Aldis Hodge
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I think the thing that is hard for a lot of bands is that there is a lot of free music out there.
Jason Wade
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Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.
Susanne Langer
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I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.
Nick Tosches
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
Lord Byron
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We know what we like in music, and we got into music to try and give back what we got out of it.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
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Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.
Andrew Rosenthal
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There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.
Rich Mullins
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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.
Thomas Rhett
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Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!
Alice Herz-Sommer
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I love what I do. I love playing music.
Mat Kearney
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When the instrumental bit comes in, all the spotlights go onto a mirror ball and you basically hear gasps from the audience over the music. It's a really magical moment.
Stu G
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I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician.
Anna Meredith
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My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.
Sufjan Stevens
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It feels like there was a really, in some ways, kind of fashiony, contrived feeling that surrounds that scene. We always kind of were going around saying we're writing the music we wanted to be writing and somehow found ourselves in the middle of that. There were very few bands that were labeled that way that we really respected musically or were good friends with.
Dustin Kensrue
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Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.
Elvin Jones
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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.
Ayumi Hamasaki
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Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.
Bill Clinton
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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.
Ahmed Gallab
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I find her music completely offensive for a start and I'm sure our fans do as well.
Matt Bellamy Muse