Music Quotes
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Music can give you your dreams. It will teach you hard work, it will break your heart and make you so happy, you can't stand it. . . .I don't think I'd have been president if it hadn't been for music.
Bill Clinton
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Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
Cass McCombs
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The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.
Lewis Capaldi
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I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be.
Dolly Parton
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I'm really proud to be a woman making music. Nothing makes me happier than when other women approach me at shows and say, "You've inspired me to start writing music," or, "I feel like we could be best friends." Music is a male-dominated business, so it's nice to see bands with girls in them, and not just a bunch of dudes with beards in flannel shirts.
Bethany Cosentino
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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.
Erol Alkan
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Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Music has always kind of been an escape for me.
Joseph David-Jones
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You should create music which comes from within and not bother about anything else.
Mohit Chauhan
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I think music is best left for the listener to experience for themselves. My own description of it is only based on my own history, my own musical references and perspective. I like to avoid coloring things for people too much.
Sarah Neufeld
Arcade Fire
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I can't sight-read classical etudes - I would have to see it and learn it. But yeah, I can read. It is a wonderful tool. It's like speaking another language. Anyone that says reading music can hurt your playing is either stupid, lazy, or ignorant.
Steve Lukather
Toto
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People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like a dude,' it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, 'Oh, she's as good as us.' Of course, that's a stupid statement. It's totally stereotypical to say, 'We have an advantage on this, and if anyone else can do it well, it's only because they're like us.' I think more men are starting to learn that this attitude is totally hollow and based in imagination. As more women are involved in music, this kind of thing gets said less and less.
Esperanza Spalding
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The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.
Walt Whitman
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I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.
Colin Meloy
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If you listen to people talk, when people actually talk, they talk in melodies. If they get angry, their voice rises, and it's more of a staccato thing. When they ask for something, they're real sweet. It's all music.
John Prine
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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.
George Li
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Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.
Suzy Menkes
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The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.
Willy Mason
