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Music Quotes
"I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not."
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"One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers."
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"We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!"
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"You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich."
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"A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it."
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"Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice."
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"Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony."
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"A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music."
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"In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music."
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"That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is."
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"Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music."
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"A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working."
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"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it."
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"I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video."
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"Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace."
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"I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that."
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"We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music."
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"You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use."
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"The only song I can sing is "Lady in Red" so that must tell you how great it must have been."
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"That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions."
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"There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music."
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"It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music."
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"I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students."
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"So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day."
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"When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11."
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"A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level."
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"I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that."
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"Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature."
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