Music Quotes
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I love so many styles of music.
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Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids... I could read music. That's when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in.
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To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.
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I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.
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The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music.
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The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.
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I'm not interested in gigs unless I really want to do them. I walked away from music in 1997, and then there was a greatest hits in 2002. Thank God, it didn't do too well because the record company wouldn't promote it.
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.
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It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love doing for fun.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
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My main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like writing film and opera music. I believe that it fulfills the needs of particular situations.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
