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Music Quotes
"I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic."
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"I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits."
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"I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be."
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"I find that different types of music are good for certain activities."
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"I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough."
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"I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually."
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"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."
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"The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it."
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"I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough."
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"In memory everything seems to happen to music."
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"Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit."
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"It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played."
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"Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns."
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"Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered."
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"Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds."
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"I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music."
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"Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz."
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"Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you."
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"I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas."
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"People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still."
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"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
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"Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music."
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"I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band."
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"Music is my way of getting away from everything. It means a lot to me."
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"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."
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