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Music Quotes
"Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language."
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"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
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"That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't."
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"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."
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"As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief."
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"Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system."
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"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."
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"Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media."
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"Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert."
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"I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music."
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"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it."
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"Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways."
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"Music is escapism, it's entertainment."
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"You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use."
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"It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together."
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"Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music."
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"I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference."
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"So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift."
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"I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected."
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"Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time."
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"It can even be a single note which defines the entire song."
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"The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences."
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"Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema ."
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