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Music Quotes
"In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves."
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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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"There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is."
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"Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music."
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"The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage."
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"There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven't the time to review as much as I'd like. I can't remember a better time to be a musician or to listen to music!"
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"My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me."
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"I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring."
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"I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it."
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"Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere."
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"I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music."
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"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
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"What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds."
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"My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music."
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"Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much."
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"Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns."
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"I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally."
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"But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things."
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"I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so."
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"No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had."
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"To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together."
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