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Music Quotes
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."
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"I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way."
108
"My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being."
100
"Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models."
98
"I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City."
97
"In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat."
94
"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."
93
"Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based on those notes as written and nothing else - has to be divined."
88
"Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality."
86
"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot."
84
"When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings."
82
"I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail."
82
"I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do."
80
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
80
"Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like."
79
"In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself."
77
"When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff."
77
"Writing music is just something that I was born to do."
76
"I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw."
75
"Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen."
75
"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."
71
"I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it."
71
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
71
"There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before."
70
"And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day."
70
"The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone."
70
"I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me."
68
"So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America."
67
"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."
67
"Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music."
66
"Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song."
63
"Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off."
63
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