Music Is Quotes
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I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.
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Music is the only art that actually lives.
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People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it's not like that.
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...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.
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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
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Music is a wonderful way of healing and helping get through things.
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Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about.
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Music is interior decoration.
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.
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Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.
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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
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The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.
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Unfortunately, as far as the music is concerned, what defines relevance is whether you are on the radio or whether you are on the cover of a magazine or whether you're winning MTV awards, and so on and so forth.
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Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.
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Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.
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Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.
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I used to say that I was making "country music," because it was the quickest, easiest answer. I'm obviously heavily influenced by country music. There was a three-year stint in my life where I listened to nothing else, so, I learned it very well.
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Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.
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The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.
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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
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Music is infinite and personal. I don't want to put myself in a box. I want to try everything and I'm trying everything. I'm really trying to write what's in my heart and what I feel without a lot of help in that department. It's about being brave.
