Music Quotes
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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.
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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 not material. Music is Spiritual.
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Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of discovering music and it makes sense, to want to share that music with other people.
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
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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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Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.
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I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.
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Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one feeling at a time. Classical music is by its very nature involved with different kinds of music, constantly transforming one another, which is more akin to the way our experience of life really is.
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I want to write music that will outlive me.
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The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.
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Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.
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I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
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Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
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Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.
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Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me.
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Your voice and music are the same to me.
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When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.
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Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
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I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.
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I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.
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Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
