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Music Quotes
"I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music."
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"Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films."
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"Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid."
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"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."
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"What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive."
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"Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song."
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"Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes."
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"One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community."
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"You have to have that organizational principle behind the song."
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"Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon."
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"So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument."
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"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die."
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"My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes."
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"I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit."
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"Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers."
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"Lately I've been believing that music predates speech."
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"It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy."
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"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
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"Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?"
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"But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places."
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"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
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"I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music."
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"I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway."
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"I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs."
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"The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music."
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