Music Quotes
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I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming.
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Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.
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The human element of making music is what's most important.
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We didn't want to be famous. We just loved the music and excitement.
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I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.
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My mami and papi love my music. They're always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it's over.
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Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
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I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.
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Music helps me get into the zone and really focus on being in the moment with the work.
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My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
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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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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.
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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 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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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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Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he or she is making. Improvisation is the only musical art which predicated entirely on human trust and love.
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The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.
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My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.
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I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.
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I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.
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Commercial radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.
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You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.
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My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.
