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Music Quotes
"You're talking to someone who really understands rock music."
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"But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives."
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"It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living."
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"If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that."
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"What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't."
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"Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so."
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"Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it."
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"I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually."
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"Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way."
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"What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song."
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"First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago."
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"To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music."
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"Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies."
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"The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre."
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"When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music."
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"Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds."
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"You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with the best abilities he had and captured all that what the song is all about."
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"I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs."
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"They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers."
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"The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it."
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"Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition."
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"Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy."
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"I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites."
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"You don't try to get influenced by everything that's going on with all the other music around you. You don't listen to the radio - I mean, I don't. When I get ready to do an album, I don't listen to anybody else; I don't wanna be influenced."
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"There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert."
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"Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios."
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"To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box."
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"We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes."
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"I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes."
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"There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore."
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"So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music."
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