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Music Quotes
"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."
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"I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make."
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"What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive."
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"I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop."
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"I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about."
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"Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy."
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"My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him."
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"For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury."
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"You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich."
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"The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true."
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"I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it."
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"We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless."
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"I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted."
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"I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career."
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"The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative."
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"In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music."
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"Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much."
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"Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult."
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"It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry."
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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."
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"Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played."
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"I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression."
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"I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out."
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"I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music."
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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 listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything."
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"Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think."
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"It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's."
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"My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes."
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"My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music."
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