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Music Quotes
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
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"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."
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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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"Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs."
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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 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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"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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"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
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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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"It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played."
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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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"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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"I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over."
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"As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion."
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"Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable."
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"For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices."
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"I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels."
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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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"Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that."
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"Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know."
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"I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music."
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"Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium."
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