Music Quotes
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Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.
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Have this Chet Baker movie coming out and in that situation, I went down the rabbit hole studying Chet Baker and being obsessed with the period and the music and the relationships and the dynamic, and everything, drug addiction. There was so much I wanted to get at to kind of get at the truth. With Regression, I was certainly in Alejandro's Amenabar hands.
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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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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.
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Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
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Music defines decades, and quite clearly shapes the rhythm, vitality of fashion, attitude and social behaviors. The anthology, just like most of my work, from photography to fashion design, is about and around music.
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I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.
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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 think I'd be pretty star struck over John Mayer. I'm a big fan of his music, and I think he's great.
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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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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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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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Once you start to play together, vibing off each other in the scene, it's not just the notes - it's the music. The script might be the notes playing, but we're making it
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The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.
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Music is kind of motivational and it helps me get my mind right.
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The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
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The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their music.
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Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.
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My goal was to play 350-capacity rooms in the U.K. and, if I was lucky, 100-capacity rooms in Europe. I just wanted to play music and make money off it.
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Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.
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For a lot of people, music is about the show, the lights, and all that. With Filipino music fans, they genuinely listen to songs.
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If I hear music that has a hole in it and has a space for me to fit in, I go for that stuff.
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I need drama in my life to keep making music.
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Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.
