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Music Quotes
"So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns."
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"But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot."
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"It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?"
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"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."
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"Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before."
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"I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos."
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"Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music."
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"I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?"
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"All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated."
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"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
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"I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music."
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"The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage."
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"I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive."
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"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."
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"I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter."
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"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it."
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"I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to."
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"Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way."
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"I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones."
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"I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape."
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"Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium."
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