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Music Quotes
"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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"I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music."
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"I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video."
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"Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music."
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"We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music."
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"Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself."
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"In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm."
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"A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy."
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"I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice."
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"I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University."
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"Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science."
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"The iPod completely changed the way people approach music."
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"When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music."
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"Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well."
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"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."
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"I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened."
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"Lately I've been believing that music predates speech."
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"I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent."
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"California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music."
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"So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music."
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"There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake."
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"What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them."
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"It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad."
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