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Music Quotes
"In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness."
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"I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man."
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"The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words."
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"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."
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"I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.""
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"I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful."
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"The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together."
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"Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music."
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"Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does."
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"Country music is three chords and the truth."
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"MUSIC. It's in my heart! It's in my mind! It's in my soul! Music has a way of taking control of my entire being, and I'm perfectly okay with that! Music is Life! Music is LOVE. Music makes life extra special! Music is a GIFT to the world!"
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"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."
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"But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music."
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"A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music."
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"The music scene is more competitive in the States."
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"So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe."
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"The people that watch or buy music or listen to TV, I don't think they separate the two as much as the people that are in charge of the production of it."
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"But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music."
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"I worked very hard on me and David's record and I'm extremely proud of the record, as most people are who were involved with it. And, it's been wonderfully received by people who like our kind of music, they think it's something special, and so do I."
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"I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first."
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"We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music."
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"I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock."
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"It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been."
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"One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns."
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"With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish."
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"For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to my song over and over again, figure out how to make it different and put my little Pia spin on it."
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"Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica."
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"I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths."
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"I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society."
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"The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born."
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