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Music Quotes
"Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before."
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"I think one of the best things you can do, no matter what you play, is to take up piano. Music is based on chord changes and harmonies, and you can get 'em more out of an instrument like piano, where you can hear all the notes at once."
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"It can even be a single note which defines the entire song."
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"A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it."
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"There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake."
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"A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy."
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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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"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"
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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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"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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"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."
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"I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable."
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"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
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"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"
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"I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video."
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"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."
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"Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track."
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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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"Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema ."
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"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."
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"That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes."
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"A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out."
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"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."
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