Music Quotes
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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.
Nitin Sawhney
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I use music as a medium to talk to people.
Sun Ra
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But the connection between us was in the air, growing stronger with each stroke of his brush and with every cadenza of my piano performance as we struggled to find our unique voices. He by bringing musical tonality to his painting; me by unlocking my inner sluices, letting the palette of emotions spill freely into the art of my music.
Ella Leya
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Music has always kind of been an escape for me.
Joseph David-Jones
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I was perfectly happy about being in a pop group. Roxy Music was the perfect vehicle, and enabled me to continue with this parallel musical career, which had nothing to do with what the group were doing. It was more to do with the extension of British psychedelia.
Phil Manzanera Roxy Music
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I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.
Scott Speedman
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Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.
Sidney Lanier
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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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Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.
Ernest Gaines
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Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster - in music, in fashion, in art, too.
G-Dragon
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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
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My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.
Elvis Costello
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One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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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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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A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.
Michael Rapaport
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It doesn't bother me when someone is totally unaware of anything I've ever been in or done and says, 'Hey, man, I really like your music. I've never heard of you.' That doesn't bother me at all.
John Corabi Mötley Crüe
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Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
Cass McCombs
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I'm totally within the music. I'M LOST.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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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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Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.
Nico Muhly
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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.
Charles Dickens