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Music Quotes


"I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me."


"I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing."


"No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs."


"If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately."



"The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them."


"I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos."


"I find that different types of music are good for certain activities."


"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."


"The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week."


"But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world."



"I don't have many easy songs."


"Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in."


"My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic."


"I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones."


"Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium."



"We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour."


"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."



"My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have."


"There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's."


"However long the song is was how long it took us to write it."



"I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing."


"That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all."


"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."


"I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers."
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