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Music Quotes
"I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make."
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"Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth."
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"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience."
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"I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music."
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"I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano."
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"In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score."
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"I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album."
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"Music is a performance and needs the audience."
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"So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do."
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"Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music."
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"My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles."
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"Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world."
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"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."
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"You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it."
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"I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission."
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"I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello."
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"There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it."
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"I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue."
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