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Music Quotes
"I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow."
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"It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music."
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"But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am."
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"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things."
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"To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan."
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"When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music."
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"After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written."
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"Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition."
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"I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music."
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"Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make."
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"My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed."
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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."
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"Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience."
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"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."
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"Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too."
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"Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either."
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"I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together."
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"It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music."
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"I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis."
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"The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless."
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"The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI."
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"There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality."
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"Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead."
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"I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it."
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"The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have."
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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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"When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story."
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