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Music Quotes


"I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music."



"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."



"I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles."


"I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything."


"Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past."


"I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't."


"Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do."


"Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody."


"I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums."


"I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff."


"If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something."


"Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything."


"I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could."


"It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about."


"But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs."



"However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously."


"Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music."


"Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played."


"In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music."


"I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it."


"I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music."


"I don't think there is much American music."
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