Music Quotes
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Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.
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I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great artists and of course trying to be original at the same time. I try not to work under boundaries while I'm making music.
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I'm a fan of Miguel's; he's a friend of mine. I like melodic music, you know?
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I've always been independent with my music. I've always run my own music label.
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I want to write music that will outlive me.
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In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.
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Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
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You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.
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I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.
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Imagery is like music.
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Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing the music comes from another level that is not purely personal.
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When I write music, these colors pop out of me. It's hard to describe, but basically when I write music, I paint, and I add colors, and I add notes.
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Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
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My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.
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I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.
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To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.
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Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.
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I love to do comedy, but music is really my heart.
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For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
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Thank you to BBC6 Music and Something Else for the opportunity to broadcast my corner of electronic and alternative music across the airwaves for the last 6 years. # RIP6MIX
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My music puts people in a dreamy mood. It's edgy. It's nuanced. I get annoyed when people say it's R&B because it's not that simple. I call it futuristic soul.
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Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.
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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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Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
