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Music Quotes
"It was only later on that I became more interested in older music."
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"A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with 'Got To Get You Off My Mind', but then realised that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straight away, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs, and ... oh there are loads of rules."
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"Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else."
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"I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does."
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"I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful."
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"My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it."
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"The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all."
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"I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative."
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"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
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"There are more bad musicians than there is bad music."
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"I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about."
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"If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive."
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"Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced."
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"I did not start IC and Inteam to have control over my music. I had control before and after."
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"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."
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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've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out."
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"I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul."
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"I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that."
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"The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative."
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"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
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"From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are."
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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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"Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music."
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"Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it."
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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've always said that music is like literature."
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"I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart."
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