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Music Quotes
"I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue."
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"Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?"
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"Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me."
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"The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around."
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"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music."
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"I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household."
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"I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work."
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"If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid."
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"David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music."
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"Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz."
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"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
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"When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time."
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"He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes."
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"This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about."
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"It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars."
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"I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band."
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"Think of another as you want God to think of you."
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"The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions."
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"Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great."
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"We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle."
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"In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind."
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"I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass."
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"The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that."
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"Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do."
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