Music Quotes
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Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.
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I've got fans and letters from Israel, France Germany, Sweden, London, Africa. They all saying pretty much the same thing, 'Yo, we love you, we need you, put some more music out, please!'
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Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Dub has been a big influence in terms of production. It's inspired so many people and so much music - in terms of music where mixing desk was the instrument. Central to that is the echo chamber, and I think there's a little bit of a romantic thing there.
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I had fans, and the industry and everybody saying, 'Keep the Righteous Brothers going; keep the music alive,' and I really didn't want to do that. I had sung with a couple of guys who would supposedly be really good Bobby Hatfields, and I thought, 'Oh geez, it's really anti-climatic.'
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The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I never wanted credit for being a wonderful person or a great human being or looking peculiar. I just wanted credit for the music.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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In times of joy and sorrow, love or hate, peace and unrest, music has always been an important outlet for expressing our emotions individually and as a nation.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
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All music is beautiful.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.
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People are getting ready for music that makes them feel happy again rather than being depressed at the way the world is going right now.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
