Music Quotes
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Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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Music expresses the motion of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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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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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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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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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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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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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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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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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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All music is beautiful.
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I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.
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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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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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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 see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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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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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 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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Music is to give, share.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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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.
