Music Quotes
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Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Well, I get excited about music.
Anthony Kiedis
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.
Ed Droste
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Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.
Ramin Djawadi
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We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall.
But classical is not - the reference is wrong, because classical on one hand refers to one period in musical history, which is Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, which is a fine period in musical history, but it was a while ago.On the other hand, it sort of alludes to some kind of "class," which A, is not true; B, is kind of detrimental to the whole idea. Because the point is that this music is available and it's actually relatively reasonably priced.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
Carter Burwell
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It's getting to the point where, to be honest with you, even though there is a lot of great music around, especially in clubland, certainly from my corner of something I just felt like I needed to get my hands dirty and DJ out.
Erol Alkan
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I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.
Prince
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Safe sex, safe music, safe clothing, safe hair spray, safe ozone layer. Too late! Everything that's been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister
Motörhead
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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
Plato
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Saying you're a pop group isn't saying very much. Personally, when I think of pop, I think of instant, accessible, catchy songs - I definitely identify our music as that. I think that by writing pop, or instant, accessible or hopefully catchy music, it shoes you into bigger audiences because it seems that more people like that music. I think the possibilities are endless if you stick to a simplistic short song; the music can be as wild and bizarre as you want it to be, as long as at the core of it, there's something really strong.
Ed MacFarlane
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There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
Simon McBurney
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Music is the language of the heart without words.
Shinichi Suzuki
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I think it happens to a lot of people who make music just on a computer by themselves, you don't see the bigger picture. You don't see the forest for the trees. You're looking at every tree so closely, and every tree looks so cool. But you're making a forest, man, you're not making a tree.
Eef Barzelay
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To be healthy, and desperate to be a Natasha at the ball with Prince Andrei or Kuryagin, and instead to be sitting alone, staring at the ceiling, while listening to the echo of the music, the sound of voices, the laughter.
Elena Ferrante
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Every now and then, I might listen to music, but I try not to listen to it too much because when you turn on the radio and hear the same song over and over again. You won't appreciate it as much; it won't be as fresh.
Hakeem Seriki
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Puerto Rico's relationship with music is everything. It's an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.
Bad Bunny
