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Music Quotes
"Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language."
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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."
216
"Writing music is just something that I was born to do."
205
"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."
201
"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot."
200
"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."
194
"I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail."
194
"Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like."
187
"I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City."
182
"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."
181
"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."
177
"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."
177
"And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day."
176
"In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat."
174
"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."
174
"I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw."
172
"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."
169
"So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America."
163
"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."
162
"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."
161
"There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before."
158
"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."
158
"What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another."
155
"Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation."
154
"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."
153
"Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music."
153
"The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone."
151
"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."
149
"I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years."
149
"Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music."
145
"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."
143
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."
139
"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."
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