Music Quotes
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Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.
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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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Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.
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I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.
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In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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Music is kind of motivational and it helps me get my mind right.
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The world changes when there's music in it.
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Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
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Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.
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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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If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going to happen. I feel essentially we really don't know anything anyway, most of the times we're just guessing.
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It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
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Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?
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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.
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We've made a lot of party music; we're definitely not Thom Yorke. But there's also depth to our records; we get emotional.
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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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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 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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You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.
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Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.
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Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
