Music Quotes
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.
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My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.
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That's why I love music so much. It completely saved me. There are so many feelings you can't explain, and you can hear one note on a guitar and somehow that sound explains what you can't put into words.
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Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster - in music, in fashion, in art, too.
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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.
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You're always learning so much from people and how they work and what their processes are. Some people like to listen to music before they get into it, and some people can talk all the way up to, "Action!" Everybody is different.
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You should create music which comes from within and not bother about anything else.
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Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone was trying to outdo each other by being more outrageous and sounding more different, now there is a homogeneous sameness to it all.
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Acting came easy to me, I think. There's something about it that's a lot easier for me in the sense that you're playing someone else. In music, you're giving somebody 'you.' Being able to do that and being willing to share that is an entirely different thing.
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Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert.
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I use music as a medium to talk to people.
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I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.
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I used to be just a total jazz freak. People used to say, 'Where's the melody? Is there a melody in there anywhere?' Now I let the music follow the song.
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Your voice and music are the same to me.
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Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
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For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
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I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming.
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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.
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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 has always kind of been an escape for me.
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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.
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Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.
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When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.
