Music Quotes
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Your voice and music are the same to me.
Charles Dickens
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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
Eugenio Montale
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I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.
Nicholas Thorburn
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I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be.
Dolly Parton
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Music and dance is universal, and I want to break borders and represent.
Nora Fatehi
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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.
Joe Jonas
Jonas Brothers
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Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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I just play music, you know what I mean? That's what I want to spend my time talking about.
Glenn Danzig
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I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.
Paul Eenhoorn
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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.
Michael Jackson
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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.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.
Ernest Gaines
