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Music Quotes


"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."


"Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music."


"When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs."


"Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music."



"I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels."


"The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal."


"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."


"Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them."



"The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with."


"I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing."


"I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people."



"I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props."


"Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition."


"I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same."


"It's sometimes impossible to fit in all the music we want to fit in, in an hour and 45 minute show."


"I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we dont even know, and make music and whatever."



"You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway."



"I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it."



"I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music."



"Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals."


"We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist."



"I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it."


"I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music."



"That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens."


"It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry."



"This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it."
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