Music Quotes
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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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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.
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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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My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.
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Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.
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Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
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The first music I loved on my own was punk.
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When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.
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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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Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.
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I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.
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We spent a lot of time making 'Transangelic Exodus' and toward the end of it, my ability and my love for music - that is, just garage music, direct and immediate - started to feel neglected.
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Obviously like many of us, I love music, and I hate music sometimes.
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Sometimes it music in my head is a curse, but it's also a blessing. It is a gift that I am completely grateful for. That's why I keep making music, because I don't want to be ungrateful for the gift.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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.
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No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
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Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.
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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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Depending on the story, I don't feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they'll have songs. If it doesn't demand songs, you'll have underscore.
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We used to go to Palm Springs, ditch school when I was in eleventh grade, and go hang out poolside with our ghetto blaster and listen to Pat Metheny 'Offramp' and kind of trip out on a lot of his music.
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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.
