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Music Quotes
"I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A."
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"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
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"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
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"Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience."
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"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
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"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
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"The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music."
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"I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes."
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"Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema ."
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"It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played."
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"Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music."
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"When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way."
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"I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter."
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"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."
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"I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over."
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"I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football."
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"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."
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"The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth."
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"The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them."
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"Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid."
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"I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music."
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"Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium."
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"It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?"
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"It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music."
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