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Music Quotes
"When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that."
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"This band is a real collaboration, and I'm greatful to anybody who can appreciate our music. It doesn't have to be a certain kind of fan or person or anything. I think there's a little bit of something for everybody on this record."
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"Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions."
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"The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences."
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"I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to."
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"The world I was born into was one filled with music."
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"I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening."
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"Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call."
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"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."
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"When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included."
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"Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job."
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"I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago."
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"Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music."
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"The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film."
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"It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music."
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"I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me."
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"The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood."
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"There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music."
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"I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child."
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"I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones."
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"I never listened to country music growing up."
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"But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time."
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"However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums."
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"The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn."
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"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory."
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"I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus."
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"I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do."
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"Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain."
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