Music Quotes
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I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.
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For a long time, I resisted seeing The Sound of Music, but when I finally did, I cried.
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A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
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My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
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Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.
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I like music, but I need to get outside more.
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There will never be another 'American Idol,' which produced so many credible superstars over the years. It was a phenomenon in pop culture. It changed music.
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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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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.
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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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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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I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.
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The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.
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I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.
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No matter what album I’ve ever made or ever will work on, it’s me trying to achieve this feeling I had listening to music when I was 8 years old. Just being mesmerized by the production and the mystique and the stories.
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The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.
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Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
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You love doing music, and wouldn't do anything else in the world. But it's a grind.
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My goal with this music is that people feel filled up by it. I hope they have a little bit more hope in their tank when they finish listening to it.
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There's a lot of music in my life, and I found it a very important part of my life.
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A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.
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Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants.
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We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.
