Music Quotes
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When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.
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I just play music, you know what I mean? That's what I want to spend my time talking about.
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I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to do a lot of things. I've always wanted to learn how to paint, too. I'd like to try everything, but music is my reason for living.
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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
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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.
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Music has always been my first love, so making music happen is a big priority of mine.
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Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.
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The human element of making music is what's most important.
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Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
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Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music...
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I actually didn't find out about a lot of music until I was older. Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.
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The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their 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.
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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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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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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.
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I always want to do music that inspires or influences another generation. You want what you create to live, be it sculpture or painting or music. Like Michelangelo, he said, “I know the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.
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I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
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The hurt is the place where the music enters you.
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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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What is not heartrending is superfluous, at least in music.
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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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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
