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Music Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"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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"The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth."
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"It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music."
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"I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play."
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"Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music."
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"Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me."
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"Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario."
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"I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland."
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"I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John... about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought that the moment had passed."
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"I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts."
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"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you."
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"I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society."
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"That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there."
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