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Music Quotes
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
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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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"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
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"Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration."
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"I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A."
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"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you."
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"I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music."
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"There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's."
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"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."
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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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"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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"When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune."
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"Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me."
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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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"Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music."
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"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."
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"We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others."
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"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
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"Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes."
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"The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth."
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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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"I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last."
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"Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area."
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"Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound."
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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've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football."
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