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"I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it."
Carter Burwell
"I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it."
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"Metal is still the biggest music now in America."
Sebastian Bach
"Metal is still the biggest music now in America."
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"When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts."
Gary Numan
"When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts."
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"Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music."
Bruce Springsteen
"Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music."
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"I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody."
Loretta Lynn
"I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody."
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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."
Les Baxter
"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."
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"My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York."
Debra Wilson
"My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York."
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"Music my rampart, and my only one."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Music my rampart, and my only one."
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"Music is like making love: either all or nothing."
Isaac Stern
"Music is like making love: either all or nothing."
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"I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf."
Pete Townshend
"I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf."
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"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
Henny Youngman
"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
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"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something."
Jim Morrison
"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something."
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"You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music."
Sid Vicious
"You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music."
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"I don't feel comfortable making empty music."
Talib Kweli
"I don't feel comfortable making empty music."
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"I dress up a certain way because I respect the music."
Wynton Marsalis
"I dress up a certain way because I respect the music."
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"Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs."
Marianne Faithfull
"Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs."
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"I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit."
Joseph Jarman
"I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit."
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"It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling."
David Strathairn
"It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling."
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"I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive."
Neil Young
"I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive."
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"I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs."
Joan Jett
"I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs."
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"I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music."
Derek Jeter
"I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music."
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"I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad."
Willie Nelson
"I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad."
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"Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music."
Satyajit Ray
"Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music."
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"Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs."
Tori Amos
"Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs."
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"Any good music must be an innovation."
Les Baxter
"Any good music must be an innovation."
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"Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling."
Geezer Butler
"Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling."
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"It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open."
Trevor Dunn
"It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open."
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"I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one."
Faith Hill
"I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one."
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"I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well."
Lindsay Lohan
"I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well."
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"If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good."
Jerry Goldsmith
"If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good."
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"With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn't over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would."
Lee Ann Womack
"With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn't over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would."
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"My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around."
Boz Scaggs
"My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around."
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"You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time."
Brian De Palma
"You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time."
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"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."
David Byrne
"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."
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"In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that."
John Mellencamp
"In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that."
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"I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star."
Kid Rock
"I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star."
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"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."
Aaron Copland
"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."
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"Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music."
Avery Brundage
"Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music."
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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."
Ville Valo
"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."
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"We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it."
Greg Ginn
"We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it."
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"As a musician usually music is your way out."
Damon Albarn
"As a musician usually music is your way out."
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"The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster."
Esa-Pekka Salonen
"The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster."
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"Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music."
Zach Braff
"Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music."
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"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."
Pablo Casals
"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."
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"And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated."
Michael Tilson Thomas
"And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated."
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"We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down."
Chris Lowe
"We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down."
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"Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here."
Ruth Brown
"Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here."
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"It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things."
Jim Jarmusch
"It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things."
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"But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan."
Obie Trice
"But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan."
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"The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way."
Herbie Hancock
"The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way."
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