Music Quotes
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Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
Shakira
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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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Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that's the ergometer.
Barry S. Strauss
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Steve Martin
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I think the question of actually relating emotion to music is totally interesting. I believe that it is really important on some level, but it's also important not to impose your own emotions on some music that has its own emotions.
Eyvind Kang
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I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.
George Steiner
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
Ahmet Ertegun
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It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.
Arthur Helps
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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 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 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 love patchwork quilts. But not in music.
John Grant
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I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.
Deradoorian
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I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an existential angst that I have felt most of my life and still feel today, to not be overwhelmed by it. Music, in a way, is a great vehicle, a means by which one can express all these somewhat contradictory feelings.
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
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You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.
Mike Watt
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The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
Bonnie Raitt
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In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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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.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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I'm not here to put my music out on the Internet with no support and then say I got creative freedom. I've got creative freedom wherever I go: I don't create anything that I don't want to create. That's freedom. Since when does a company force you to make something that you don't want to make? If they do that, you leave.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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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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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.
Alexandra Shipp
