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Music Quotes
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
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"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
98
"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."
94
"Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off."
89
"I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction."
85
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
82
"I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs."
81
"When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing."
79
"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'."
75
"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres."
73
"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"
72
"Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know."
72
"There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate."
72
"I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure."
71
"Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs."
70
"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."
70
"But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message."
68
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."
68
"So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift."
66
"Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area."
66
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
66
"Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die."
65
"People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then."
65
"What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds."
64
"Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes."
64
"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you."
63
"As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief."
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