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Music Quotes
"I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns."
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"Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music."
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"I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts."
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"I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations."
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"The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear."
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"I like songs that go to different places and then come back."
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"We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it."
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"I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film."
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"The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician."
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"You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key."
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"I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music."
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"I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band."
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"The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music."
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"If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances."
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"I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV."
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"I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional."
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"Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo."
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"Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it."
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"Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one."
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"I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like."
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"The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music."
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"As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music."
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"One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album."
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"The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records."
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"Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody."
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"I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play."
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"Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response."
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"I'm just thrilled to see people enjoying the music."
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"I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop."
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"The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that."
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"I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not."
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