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Music Quotes
"As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief."
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"Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself."
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"I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last."
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"The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth."
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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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"If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other."
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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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"Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be."
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"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."
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"There's something inimical about the camera and song."
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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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"As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?"
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"Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult."
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"Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual."
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"But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music."
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"The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage."
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"I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way."
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"The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock."
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"There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music."
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"I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it."
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"I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance."
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"I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song."
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"The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do."
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"The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level."
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"I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music."
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"The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass."
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"I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band."
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"I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in."
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"As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music."
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"I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big."
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