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Music Quotes
"Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time."
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"What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music."
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"I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me."
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"I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward."
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"It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music."
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"Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future."
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"One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story."
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"For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion."
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"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune."
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"Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music."
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"Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music."
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"You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes."
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"If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for."
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"I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician."
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"The music industry over there seems to treat America like it's one territory even though they got offices in different parts of America - they're still quite sort of 'America is the territory.'"
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"I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music."
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"The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying."
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"Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music."
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"If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world."
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"I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music."
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"Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks."
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"Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me."
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"In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves."
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"I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that."
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"And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries."
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"When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else."
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"For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market."
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