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Music Quotes
"I don't think there is much American music."
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"I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration."
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"Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music."
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"I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music."
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"When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French."
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"Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language."
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"The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics."
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"But I never listen to music while I'm writing."
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"I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy."
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"When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue."
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"Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did."
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"I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music."
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"When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain."
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"The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man."
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"This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music."
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"Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower."
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"I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show."
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"You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it."
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"I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record."
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"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands."
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"I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV."
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"No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations."
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"You program music with an image and then people are desensitized."
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"When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?"
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"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
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"The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music."
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"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."
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"I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song."
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