Music Quotes
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You just said it, the style of the music doesn’t allow anything else.
Peter Edward Clarke
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We try and have the full range of emotion being expressed in our music.
Nick Hexum
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Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
Steve Burns
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I know I'm a really good drummer, but there are tons of great musicians out here and I was just really worried about what the fuck I was gonna do. It was an era in my life when I was dating again and you know, being in a band is like being involved with a girlfriend because there's a lot of time, a lot of commitment.
Paddy Boom Scissor Sisters
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I like music, but I need to get outside more.
Edward Norton
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I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a PA - where people couldn't really hear me so I relied a lot on physicality and a sense of discomfort and risk.
EMA
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My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
SZA
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When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.
Blixa Bargeld
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I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going, but it's bad because it really is sort of like an obsession where you can't stop sometimes and it'll keep you up at night and ruin your weekend.
Hamilton Leithauser
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Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it.
Michael Jackson
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I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.
Brett Dennen
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Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.
Michelle Shocked
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For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.
George Steiner
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Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.
Errollyn Wallen
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The stress that we with Abilities always feel is trying to continue advancing with our music. That's our plight, it's ingrained in our personalities. We feel like we're trying to race the world of music itself - just trying to create the best music, and as soon as we get done with one piece we're trying to figure out how to top it.
Eyedea
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In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.
Alan Bishop
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
Ahmet Ertegun
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Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I use music as a medium to talk to people.
Sun Ra
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I don't know. I mean, it's not all beautifully harmonic, this world we find ourselves in. Clearly. There's shit music, and sometimes the melody goes away completely. There's silence and dissonant chord that cringe your ears. But the synchronicity of a perfectly created chorus? And the fact that you never know when one is coming? And that amazing feeling, the first time you hear a song and now it's going to be with you forever? I have to think that's worth everything.
Bill Konigsberg
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Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
Thomas Carlyle
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I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.
Ezra Furman
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When I grew up, there was one music: rock n' roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don't know why it happened, but it did happen.
Clarence Clemons