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Music Quotes
"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 we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years."
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"If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances."
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"I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over."
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"Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry."
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"Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles."
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"It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage."
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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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"We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics."
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"There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him."
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"As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?"
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"I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies."
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"In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music."
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"Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that."
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"Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music."
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"Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?"
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"I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland."
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"And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live."
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"Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't."
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"Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes."
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"I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music."
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"It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music."
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"I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the 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."
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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."
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"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."
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"Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony."
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"I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him."
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"You have to have that organizational principle behind the song."
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"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
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