Music Quotes
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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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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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I can understand why it takes some people a long time to really be a singer. You have to find out, 'Why am I singing? What am I doing this for?' I do it because I enjoy it, and philosophically, music is a catalyst. It's a refining agent.
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Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music and arts programs. They increase the ability of young people to do math. They increase the ability of young people to read. And most important of all, they're a lot of fun.
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It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.
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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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What is not heartrending is superfluous, at least in music.
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I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in order to figure it out.
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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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The hurt is the place where the music enters you.
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My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.
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Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.
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I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.
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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
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I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.
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The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.
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He knew everything about girls, he knew everything about drugs, and he knew an awful lot about music, and I become interested in all three of those things.
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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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Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.
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If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
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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 feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.
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I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it.
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Love is a friendship set to music.
