Music Quotes
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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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I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.
Cass McCombs
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Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.
Rich Mullins
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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 don't really listen to my old music.
John Grant
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That was our whole ambition was to become songwriters and get a publishing deal. So music has always been a part of my life.
Pete Byrne
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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
Sun Ra
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When I do music, I have a hard time experiencing it like everyone else, because there's so much thought that goes into it. You can sometimes fool yourself into thinking it's better than what it is, which stops me from being creative on the next thing I do.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical is not - the reference is wrong, because classical on one hand refers to one period in musical history, which is Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, which is a fine period in musical history, but it was a while ago.On the other hand, it sort of alludes to some kind of "class," which A, is not true; B, is kind of detrimental to the whole idea. Because the point is that this music is available and it's actually relatively reasonably priced.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
Scott Ian Anthrax
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To meet this expense, he sold his violin. Besides, Charlotte did not care for music.
Bel Kaufman
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You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
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I'm an interpreter of music.
Sarah Brightman
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The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.
Paul Hindemith
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The hurt is the place where the music enters you.
Ella Leya
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Music is our myth of the inner life.
Susanne Langer
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Music is definitely something that I'd like to pursue. It's probably, I mean, the acting and music are the two biggest things in my life.
Nolan Sotillo
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I try to practice with my life.
Herbie Hancock
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Music can give you your dreams. It will teach you hard work, it will break your heart and make you so happy, you can't stand it. . . .I don't think I'd have been president if it hadn't been for music.
Bill Clinton
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I feel cool about making music and I feel secure pushing boundaries in my music. But things like videos and photos I find really difficult. I don't really like being in front of a camera - even though it is my job and I must act like I do.
EMA
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I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
Michael Jackson
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What is not heartrending is superfluous, at least in music.
Emil Cioran