Music Quotes
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Medicine is often conservative and slow to incorporate something that wasn't there before and that we're afraid people are going to laugh at us for. But, the beauty of music is - well, a couple things. There are no side effects that are harmful. Music doesn't do that. It doesn't have any negative effects whatsoever. So I do think it's going to come, but I think it's a new idea for people.
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I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.
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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.
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I'm just going with the flow. I'm in the process, I'm on the path. I'm really working towards all of my goals and music is definitely on the way.
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Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of the time, and changing that language very radically was just a sign or a signal that I was going to try to do something very different. I find that that's what I feel closest to. I found no real inner response in me in a non-tonal language.
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Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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They don't like their generation's music, so they find some that they do like!
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The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic … in terms of music history.
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When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular and when U2 invited Benny and I on stage to sing Dancing Queen, I just assumed we were being sent up. But now I see they were paying tribute to us
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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I've always been a big advocate of making shows affordable because a lot of these bottle-service clubs and events are geared toward really expensive experiences. Club music is for everyone, and it drives me crazy that people are getting priced out.
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One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.
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I think a lot of people are having their midlife crisis in public. I think if you left something unfinished, go ahead and do it. But I guess I can't really answer that question in respect to my own music, because it's inconceivable.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.
