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Music Quotes
"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
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"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'."
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"My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre."
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"Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language."
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"What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds."
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"When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune."
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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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"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
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"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
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"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
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"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
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"Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into 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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"Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!"
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"I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference."
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"I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them."
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"I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music."
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"Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before."
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"Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system."
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"Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle."
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"I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?"
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"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."
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"I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be."
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