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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."
Ivor Novello
"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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"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."
John Lithgow
"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."
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"When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs."
Robert Smith
"When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs."
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"There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry."
Jimmy Buffett
"There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry."
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"Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music."
Kurtis Blow
"Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music."
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"If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music."
Keith Richards
"If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music."
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"I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels."
Teena Marie
"I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels."
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"The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal."
Milan Kundera
"The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal."
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"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."
Elvis Costello
"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."
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"We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs."
Barry Mann
"We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs."
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"I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market."
Bryan White
"I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market."
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"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."
Doug Coupland
"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."
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"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."
Talib Kweli
"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."
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"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."
Debbie Harry
"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."
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"We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode."
Gary Wright
"We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode."
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"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."
Mick Taylor
"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."
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"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."
Talib Kweli
"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."
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"If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs."
Tom Araya
"If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs."
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"I've never worried about how long the song is."
Adam Jones
"I've never worried about how long the song is."
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"Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition."
Itzhak Perlman
"Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition."
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"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."
Benny Green
"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."
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"I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway."
Evan Parker
"I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway."
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"It's sometimes impossible to fit in all the music we want to fit in, in an hour and 45 minute show."
Mick Taylor
"It's sometimes impossible to fit in all the music we want to fit in, in an hour and 45 minute show."
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"I write emotional music."
Les Baxter
"I write emotional music."
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"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."
Joel Madden
"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."
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"Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'."
Link Wray
"Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'."
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"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music."
John Keats
"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music."
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"That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are."
Elliott Carter
"That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are."
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"I am really addicted to music."
Gavin Rossdale
"I am really addicted to music."
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"You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway."
Sebastian Bach
"You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway."
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"My music is best understood by children and animals."
Igor Stravinsky
"My music is best understood by children and animals."
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"I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it."
Stephen Sondheim
"I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it."
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"When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material."
Tennessee Ernie Ford
"When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material."
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"I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance."
Bernice Johnson Reagon
"I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance."
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"I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music."
Vinnie Vincent
"I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music."
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"A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting."
Charlie Trotter
"A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting."
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"There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music."
Daisy Berkowitz
"There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music."
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"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."
Talib Kweli
"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."
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"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."
Marc Almond
"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."
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"I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it."
Sarah McLachlan
"I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it."
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"I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music."
Bobby McFerrin
"I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music."
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"I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully."
Jerry Garcia
"I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully."
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"But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know."
Sun Ra
"But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know."
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"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."
Ville Valo
"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."
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"We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play."
Arto Lindsay
"We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play."
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"These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas."
Elvis Costello
"These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas."
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"In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living."
Mark Edwards
"In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living."
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"It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry."
Martina McBride
"It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry."
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"This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it."
Samuel Goldwyn
"This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it."
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"I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much."
Amy Grant
"I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much."
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