Music Quotes
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
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I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.
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Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
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Music is our myth of the inner life.
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Music is definitely something that I'd like to pursue. It's probably, I mean, the acting and music are the two biggest things in my life.
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I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform.
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The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.
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Serious music usually doesn't pay.
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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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There was a whole scene that was influenced by hip-hop, dance music and club culture and that was really how the journey started.
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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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I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.
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I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
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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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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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I don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people 'You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.
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I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as supportive as well.
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With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.
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The human element of making music is what's most important.
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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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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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What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
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Because I cannot sleep i make music in the night
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Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
