Music Quotes
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I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.
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I'm a big music fan outside of the music I make.
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'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.
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Great music is a psychical storm, agitating to fathomless depths the mystery of the past within us.
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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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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 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.
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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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Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.
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Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
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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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If you listen to people talk, when people actually talk, they talk in melodies. If they get angry, their voice rises, and it's more of a staccato thing. When they ask for something, they're real sweet. It's all music.
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Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.
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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
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Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.
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Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.
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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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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.
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Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.
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If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
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Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
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I used to be just a total jazz freak. People used to say, 'Where's the melody? Is there a melody in there anywhere?' Now I let the music follow the song.
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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.
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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.
