Music Quotes
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That was our whole ambition was to become songwriters and get a publishing deal. So music has always been a part of my life.
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I make music for the hips, not the head.
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Never stop supporting music because it will never stop being there for you when you need it.
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My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.
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Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert.
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Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.
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I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.
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I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.
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For me, getting my personality across is so important in getting that connection for people that enjoy my music.
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I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
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My style influences my music and everything around me.
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There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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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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My goal is not to make just one album, it’s to spread this music and for other people to make music with this sound and this feeling.
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I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.
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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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The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.
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I want people to look at themselves. I want people to go into a space for meditation. It's funny to use a word like meditation as the music is fairly brutal but there is a hypnotic element to it and the way that I try and create that for someone just happens to be through a fairly heavy form of music. You are constantly barraged and beaten down with a lot of bullshit and I find that heavy and extreme music helps me to go into a very tranquil place and I hope, more than anything, that the music does create a space for people to go inward with.
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It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.
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Something had begun to emanate from Lila’s mobile body that the males sensed, an energy that dazed them, like the swelling sound of beauty arriving. The music had to stop before they returned to themselves.
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Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.
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Writing a poem is making music with words and space.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
