"Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt."

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"Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt."

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Taylor Swift, American Musician

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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music."

Charlie Daniels, American Musician

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"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."

Glenda Jackson, British Actress

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Mark Edwards, American Celebrity

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"Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical."

Ben Harper, American Musician

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"So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message."

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"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."

Thomas Merton, American Author

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"I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something."

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"When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years."

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"Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero."

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"I prefer to write music for family films. I like people."

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"I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness."

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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

"What kind of songs do you like? she asked."The ones that remind me of you," I said."

"A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music."

"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."

"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."

"Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical."

"So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message."

"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."

"I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something."

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"Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions."

"When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years."

"The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s."

"Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero."

"I prefer to write music for family films. I like people."

"I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness."

"Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt."