Music Quotes
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The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.
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I need to keep my classical roots and classical technique because it always kinda easier to play even in a rock group. I of course concentrate little bit more in classical music, while in rock you can be more free improvise, do crazy stuff with the instrument.
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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 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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I want to write music that will outlive me.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.
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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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The hurt is the place where the music enters you.
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I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.
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I need drama in my life to keep making music.
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Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
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Well, I get excited about music.
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There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.
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My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.
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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 like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.
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Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs.
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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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What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
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Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.
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Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
