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"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."
Elvis Costello
"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."
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"What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh."
Pete Townshend
"What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh."
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"Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it."
Freddie Hubbard
"Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it."
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"A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you."
Mariel Hemingway
"A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you."
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"Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head."
Kip Winger
"Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head."
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"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."
David Bowie
"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."
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"I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music."
Phil Anselmo
"I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music."
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"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."
Talib Kweli
"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."
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"I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film."
Carson Daly
"I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film."
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"In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is."
Brian Austin Green
"In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is."
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"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."
Vanessa Carlton
"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."
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"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."
David Byrne
"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."
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"I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano."
Teena Marie
"I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano."
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"Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music."
Avery Brundage
"Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music."
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"Country music is three chords and the truth."
Harlan Howard
"Country music is three chords and the truth."
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"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
Steve Lacy
"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
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"Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music."
Frank Capra
"Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music."
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"I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people."
Fantasia Barrino
"I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people."
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"If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice."
Benny Goodman
"If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
Satyajit Ray
"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since."
Ray Manzarek
"I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since."
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"I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music."
Loretta Lynn
"I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music."
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"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."
Sarah Dessen
"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."
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"I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose."
Norman Wisdom
"I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose."
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"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."
Dolly Parton
"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."
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"Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better."
Maurice Gibb
"Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better."
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"Love tone, rhythm, lyrical or melodic structure from heart to love! is the interlude of true love."
Auliq Ice
"Love tone, rhythm, lyrical or melodic structure from heart to love! is the interlude of true love."
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"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."
John Eaton
"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."
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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."
Kilroy J. Oldster
"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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"I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project."
Bill Wyman
"I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project."
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"That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others."
Perry Como
"That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others."
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"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."
Joel Madden
"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."
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"But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too."
Kenneth Edmonds
"But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too."
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"Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe."
Elliott Carter
"Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe."
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"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."
Neil Diamond
"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."
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"In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer."
Elliott Carter
"In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer."
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"The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage."
Robert Caro
"The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage."
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"Music stops you from thinking."
Peter Weir
"Music stops you from thinking."
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"You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway."
Sebastian Bach
"You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway."
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"I have never stopped playing music."
Jason Schwartzman
"I have never stopped playing music."
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"In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely."
Maurice Jarre
"In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely."
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"Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative."
Robert Fripp
"Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative."
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"That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts."
Ricky Skaggs
"That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts."
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"I think sometimes you are born with a song."
Nana Mouskouri
"I think sometimes you are born with a song."
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"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."
Frank Zappa
"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."
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"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
Edith Sitwell
"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
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"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."
Charlie Hunter
"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."
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"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."
Alvin Ailey
"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."
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"Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs."
Peter Steele
"Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs."
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"I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make."
Richard Marx
"I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make."
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