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Music Quotes
"Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us."
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"My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy."
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"I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing."
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"Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible."
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"Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper."
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"In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did."
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"It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more."
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"I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really."
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"But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music."
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"Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation."
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"I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music."
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"I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then."
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"There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the feeling behind the rhythm... to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove."
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"You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not."
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"When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did."
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"Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully."
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"I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him."
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"God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful."
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"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."
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"I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company."
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"I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't."
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"But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music."
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"I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'."
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"I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist."
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"My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world."
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"When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted."
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"It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience."
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"You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something-it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that."
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"She had forgotten about this, the narcotic of the crowd. This is why you came to hear music. To stop being yourself, to let that thing that you supposedly were go, and just be part of a mob, synchronized by the heavy beat, mesmerized by a singer with big smeary red lips, her spooky chant."
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"I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message."
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