Music Quotes
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Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.
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I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.
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I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.
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It might be helping to explore a story visually by going to see a museum exhibit that's relevant to something that somebody's reading, or going to see a show or listening to a piece of music or cooking a meal that's in one of the stories, something practical, something kinesthetic that draws the reader in and helps them to experience the story for themselves. Those are all ways I think we can kind of come in the back door and help kids find the joy, as opposed to the chore or responsibility, of reading.
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All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.
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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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It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.
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Serious music usually doesn't pay.
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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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Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.
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Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is simply a miniature of the original music, which is creation itself, expressed in tone and rhythm.
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Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.
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Music in Rocky has always been pivotal.
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People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid.
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Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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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My music has always been the same. It's the same kinda music but of a better quality. For me nothing really changes just the work rate. It's the work rate that changes more than the music.
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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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Our plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.
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For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
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The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.
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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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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.
