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Music Quotes
"I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms."
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"I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody."
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"The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it."
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"We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together."
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"Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all."
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"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."
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"I was into playing American music, especially the blues."
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"I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened."
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"And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite."
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"I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time."
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"I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music."
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"So I wanna see all of you making out during this song."
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"Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album."
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"Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension."
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"I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it."
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"People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things."
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"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."
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"The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me."
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"When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out."
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"The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals."
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"I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone."
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"The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it."
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"There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary."
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"The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine."
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"The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force."
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