Music Quotes
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There's so much spontaneity involved, what do you practice? How do you practice teamwork? How do you practice sharing? How do you practice daring? How do you practice being nonjudgmental?
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Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.
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I had phases of listening to rap and trap, and then I had phases where I'd listen to post-hardcore, rap, grunge, metal... all that. I had different time periods of listening to different music. And now it all clashes together.
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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.
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Edward Albee, the premier dark playwright of the American theater, would show up at rehearsal and quote his favorite lines from 'Auntie Mame'. He would stand at the back of the theater, not facing the stage, and sort of conduct the music of his play.
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I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
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Pagers are my life-I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
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Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.'
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.
