Music Quotes
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Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.
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A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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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.
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I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the spheres. Then every soul became a musical note, and all life became music. Inspired by it I spoke to the people, and those who were attracted by my words listened to them instead of listening to my songs.
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The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.
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There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.
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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.
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Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music...
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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.
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My greatest desire is that you would encounter His presence; and everything about your life would be different.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.
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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.
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Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.
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It's getting to the point where, to be honest with you, even though there is a lot of great music around, especially in clubland, certainly from my corner of something I just felt like I needed to get my hands dirty and DJ out.
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My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
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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.
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Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
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The awards are voted for by progressive rock fans, so it gives us an indication of where we stand within our genre. We are very lucky that some people like our music enough to want to vote for it. We are especially delighted that our music makes a strong connection with some people.
