"There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there."

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"There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, Song

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, People, Ideas, Being

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Music, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it."

Aaron Carter, American Musician

Music, Hope, Effect, Spirits

"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

Ronnie Montrose, American Musician

Music, Songs

"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."

Nina Simone, American Musician

Music, Rap

"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Music, Folk

"Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

Music, Musicians, Voice, World

"I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people."

Bobby Vinton, American Musician

Music, People, Jazz, Living

"The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine."

Tina Yothers, American Actress

Music, People, Attention, Curiosity

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"The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that."

Music

"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."

Desire

"I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument."

Work

"You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time."

Time

"In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material."

Actor

"I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film."

Art

"In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

"Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it."

"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."

"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

"Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days."

"I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people."

"The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine."

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"The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that."

"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."

"I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument."

"You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time."

"In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material."

"I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film."

"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

"There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad."

"In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form."