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Music Quotes
"Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds."
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"Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own."
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"There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind."
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"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
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"Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play."
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"I don't have many easy songs."
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"The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage."
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"I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns."
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"No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had."
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"I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band."
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"The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal."
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"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
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"However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant."
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"Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music."
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"The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear."
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"I like songs that go to different places and then come back."
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"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."
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"Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do."
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"The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult."
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"I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music."
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"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."
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