Music Quotes
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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 loved being in the studio, writing songs and playing instruments, so it was like ‘There must be other ways to make a living in music.’”
Stephen Kozmeniuk
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The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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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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No matter what album I’ve ever made or ever will work on, it’s me trying to achieve this feeling I had listening to music when I was 8 years old. Just being mesmerized by the production and the mystique and the stories.
Jason Lytle
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If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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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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The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.
Ernest Newman
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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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I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.
Dolly Parton
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You should create music which comes from within and not bother about anything else.
Mohit Chauhan
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At the [teenage] time, I did have an inkling of my sexuality. And I had an inkling that I was different from other people in ways beyond my sexuality. But I didn't get into music because I thought, Oh, these people will understand me.
Michael Stipe
R.E.M.
