Music Quotes
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Commercial directing felt like a very natural transition from my comedy, sketch, music video directing experience.
Milana Vayntrub
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With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.
Bear McCreary
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Imagery is like music.
Steven Bochco
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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.
Brigham Young
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Music is a creative endeavor so I feel the business around it should be creative, too. One size doesn't have to fit all.
David Ellefson
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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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The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
Elvis Costello
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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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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock
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I've always had fun with music, but I prefer to listen to it rather than sing.
Sterling Knight
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Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.
John Ruskin
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I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?
Michael Jackson
