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Music Quotes
"Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain."
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"The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes."
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"We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music."
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"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."
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"My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me."
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"Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows."
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"I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing."
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"When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me."
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"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
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"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all."
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"Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before."
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"Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language."
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"There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent."
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"So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage."
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"The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's."
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"In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music."
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"With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?"
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"I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable."
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"Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative."
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"I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music."
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"When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players."
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"My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him."
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"I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences."
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