Music Quotes
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Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.
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You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.
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Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.
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I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.
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Music has always been my passion. It was not a hobby or something I can take out of my life.
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me want to be a musician was jazz, and because I didn't grow up with jazz, I had to learn it from a very basic level. I had to go into the history and learn everything about the development of the music, all the players and all that stuff.
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Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.
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When i want to hear new music, i make it...
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Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
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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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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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I just find that with music I've always felt a sort of comfort.
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Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.
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No medium is more limited than any other. It's what a person does with it. We could talk about the differences between music and literature and photography, sure, but it really comes down to what a person does.
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My deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me...the joy I receive in creating my music.
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You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
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When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and it sounds a little different. Sometimes the greatest pleasure of listening is not the music that you're listening to; it's the person that you're listening to it with.
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The Grammys are just the pinnacle of music.
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If I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn't mean suddenly there is this gap. You don't get elected. The people decide where you are. Whether I'm here or not, if they want you to be at the top then the people will move me out the way.
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I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.'
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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
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I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.
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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.
