Music Quotes
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Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night.
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We both with Jo Andres think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all kinds of theatre and all kinds of art because you never know what moves people. We've always believed that there should be a strong voice outside the commercial world. Certainly, the commercial world has a huge place in our culture and we also support that - but, we also want to support the stuff that lives outside of that.
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For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.
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A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.
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I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.
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Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
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My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic choices, in the way that I sing and write songs. I have always had that as part of my background and part of my influence when I am making music.
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The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.
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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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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.
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When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.
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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 that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.
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What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80's music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50's and 60's.
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I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.
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Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
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In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost our representation of our fantasies and so our songs are representations of our fantasies.
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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.
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Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.
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Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.
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I think every film is made better by having smart music supervision that's really in tune with the spirit of the visual content.
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I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.
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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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In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances
