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Music Quotes
"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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"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."
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"I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose."
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"There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate."
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"I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football."
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"My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it."
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"Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past."
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"The people that watch or buy music or listen to TV, I don't think they separate the two as much as the people that are in charge of the production of it."
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"Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one."
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"The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here."
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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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"They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist."
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"Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too."
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"I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't."
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"When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years."
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"I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally."
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"Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time."
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"It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been."
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"One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns."
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"I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right."
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"We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it."
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"Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody."
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"The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth."
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