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Music Quotes
"I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big."
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"What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them."
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"Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music."
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"We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge."
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"We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others."
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"I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference."
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"I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature."
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"If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part."
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"Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts."
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"I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late."
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"Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours."
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"Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication."
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"I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music."
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"For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it."
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"It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together."
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"We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side."
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"You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all."
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"I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs."
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"I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds."
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"I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting."
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"I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?"
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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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"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."
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"I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello."
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