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"Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music."
Skitch Henderson
"Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music."
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"Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it."
Pat Boone
"Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it."
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"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken."
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"And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation."
Phil Lesh
"And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation."
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"I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know."
Teena Marie
"I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know."
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"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."
Noel Coward
"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."
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"This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for."
Bruce Springsteen
"This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for."
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"That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes."
Mordechai Vanunu
"That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes."
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"No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music."
Billie Holiday
"No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music."
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"I always like to get local music when I'm in another country."
April Winchell
"I always like to get local music when I'm in another country."
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"We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities."
Chester Bennington
"We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities."
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"Music I do just for me."
Jeremy Renner
"Music I do just for me."
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"I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well."
Steve Hackett
"I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well."
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"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."
Martha Reeves
"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."
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"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
Ezra Pound
"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
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"Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well."
Graham Coxon
"Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well."
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"I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard."
Jeremy Renner
"I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard."
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"I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist."
Mike Gordon
"I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist."
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"I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge."
Sean Lennon
"I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge."
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"With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues."
Brian Setzer
"With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues."
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"Music is about textures as well as melody."
Ken Hill
"Music is about textures as well as melody."
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"I use music as a medium to talk to people."
Sun Ra
"I use music as a medium to talk to people."
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"We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers."
Neil Tennant
"We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers."
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"I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it."
Neil Young
"I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it."
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"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
Esa-Pekka Salonen
"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
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"Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?"
Billy Joel
"Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?"
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"I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out."
John Entwistle
"I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out."
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"I was never into smart college boy music."
Gene Ween
"I was never into smart college boy music."
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"There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it."
Helen Reddy
"There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it."
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"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
Esa-Pekka Salonen
"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
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"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."
Robert Browning
"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."
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"If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart."
Jon Secada
"If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart."
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"As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly."
Lesley Garrett
"As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly."
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"I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand."
Nusrat F. A. Khan
"I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand."
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"I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear."
Erykah Badu
"I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear."
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"But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him."
Neil Innes
"But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him."
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"That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness."
Corita Kent
"That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness."
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"Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures."
Morton Feldman
"Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures."
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"I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it."
Charlie Haden
"I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it."
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"I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine."
Michael Nyman
"I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine."
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"But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert."
Cliff Richard
"But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert."
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"Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music."
Herbie Hancock
"Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music."
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"I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time."
Isaac Hanson
"I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time."
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"In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure."
David Friedman
"In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure."
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"I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all."
Morton Feldman
"I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all."
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"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it."
Neil Young
"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it."
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"Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music."
Sonny Rollins
"Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music."
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"The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions."
Michael Tilson Thomas
"The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions."
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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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"I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill."
Bryan White
"I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill."
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