Music Quotes
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I try to practice with my life.
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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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Commercial radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.
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Make your own music. It can be done.
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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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Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.
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Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.
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The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.
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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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The industry will push you around and tug at you. They’ll tell you what you should do and who you should sound like. The truth is the music industry needs you. You are the artist. You create a story out of thin air. That is a gift. Keep it close and keep it flexible. Use it everyday.
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I always write my novels with music. I don't listened to the music seriously. Music seems to encourage me.
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I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
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Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.
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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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All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.
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Music is our myth of the inner life.
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I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.
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Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
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I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in order to figure it out.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
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You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.
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Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
