Music Quotes
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You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.
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My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record.
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Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.
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My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.
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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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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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A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.
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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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Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
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I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step.
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To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.
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If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
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I need drama in my life to keep making music.
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Because I cannot sleep i make music in the night
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When you're feeling down, did you know that you can change it in an instant? Put on a beautiful piece of music or start singing - that'll change your emotion.
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Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.
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We were all so young, and I just think I only got there because I was hyper enthusiastic, I would work all the time because music was and still is my dream, ultimately.
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I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.
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But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.
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To me, our careers and our lives, whether we play music or not, is a bit of a journey.
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Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... If the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?
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Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
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My mother passed away when I was seven. She had a piano in the house that she was teaching my sisters how to play. That was where I first encountered music, through her.
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It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.
