Music Quotes
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Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.
Herbie Hancock
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Our plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.
Martin Luther
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I try to practice with my life.
Herbie Hancock
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Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.
Nico Muhly
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I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.
Lil Xan
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Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love—that was my summer of 1979.
Ella Leya
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You know how children are, sometimes they love you by cuddling you, other times by trying to remake you from the start, reinvent you, as if they thought you were badly brought up and they had to teach you how to get on in the world, what music to listen to, what books to read, what films to see, the words you should use and those you shouldn’t because they’re old now, no one says that anymore.
Elena Ferrante
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You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.
Mike Watt
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We didn't want to be famous. We just loved the music and excitement.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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It's typical for video customers to often use licensed music - whether a soundtrack, background music, or sound effects - to complement their video projects.
Jon Oringer
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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.
Faris Badwan
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I've always had fun with music, but I prefer to listen to it rather than sing.
Sterling Knight
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I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.
Molly Ringwald
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I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
Michael Jackson
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Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
Bill Clinton
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Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
Scott Ian Anthrax
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Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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If I hear music that has a hole in it and has a space for me to fit in, I go for that stuff.
Mike Dean
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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
Ezra Pound
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But the connection between us was in the air, growing stronger with each stroke of his brush and with every cadenza of my piano performance as we struggled to find our unique voices. He by bringing musical tonality to his painting; me by unlocking my inner sluices, letting the palette of emotions spill freely into the art of my music.
Ella Leya
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We try and have the full range of emotion being expressed in our music.
Nick Hexum
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Music in Rocky has always been pivotal.
Bun B
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Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
Sarah Dessen
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One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley