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Music Quotes
"You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning."
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"A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set."
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"I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music."
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"SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage."
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"Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say."
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"Silken strings composing the harpsichord of life accommodate a score of emotional tidings. An orchestra of linked heartbeats strumming the melodious prose of our collective intones gives rise to sonnets of melancholy, producing an illimitable libretto stretching from the milky dawn of newborn's amaranth life to the speckled sunsets of gentle souls whom we cherish."
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"George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique."
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"My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs."
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"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."
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"When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets."
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"I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music."
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"My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount."
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"One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain."
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"Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways."
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"We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time."
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"In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience."
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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 don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is."
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"I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything."
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"The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music."
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"There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile."
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"Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you."
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"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."
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"Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience."
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"I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people."
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"I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character."
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