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Music Quotes


"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."


"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does."


"I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music."


"The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with."


"I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film."


"Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is."


"Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music."


"Country music is three chords and the truth."


"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."


"Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music."


"I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people."


"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."


"I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music."



"Plus there's the fact, he went on, making it clear he didn't need me to reply anyway, "that music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it."


"I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose."


"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."


"Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better."


"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."


"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."


"I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project."


"I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we dont even know, and make music and whatever."


"I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first."


"You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway."


"Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative."


"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."


"I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is."


"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."


"I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make."
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