Music Quotes
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One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.
Ezra Furman
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An ellipse of pale rose sand lines the inside of a river bend of such beauty, you could set yourself on fire with the rapture of that curve. In it lies a kind of music in stone that might cure all emptiness.
Ellen Meloy
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There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.
George Eliot
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When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.
Hakeem Seriki
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Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.
Mother Teresa
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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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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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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
Stephen Sondheim
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I still miss music and singing. One day, I'm going to sing with a big band.
Paul Eenhoorn
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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
