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"Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell."
W. H. Auden
"Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell."
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"I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing."
Derek Bailey
"I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing."
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"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."
Peter Steele
"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."
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"I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing."
Derek Bailey
"I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing."
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"I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that."
Bobby Vinton
"I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that."
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"No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs."
Charlie Hunnam
"No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs."
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"If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately."
Robert Smith
"If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately."
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"Music is an escape for me."
Tom Scholz
"Music is an escape for me."
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"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."
Maurice Jarre
"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."
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"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse."
Cassandra Wilson
"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse."
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"But I always loved songs with great lyrics."
Johnny Rivers
"But I always loved songs with great lyrics."
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"Music is like a huge release of tension."
James Taylor
"Music is like a huge release of tension."
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"Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice."
Wim Wenders
"Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice."
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"Please write music like Wagner, only louder."
Samuel Goldwyn
"Please write music like Wagner, only louder."
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"I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs."
Billy Sherwood
"I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs."
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"I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos."
Richard King
"I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos."
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"I always make music that is true to my spirit."
Wynonna Judd
"I always make music that is true to my spirit."
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"Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat."
Van Morrison
"Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat."
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"I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap."
Sebastian Bach
"I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap."
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"I find that different types of music are good for certain activities."
Peter Steele
"I find that different types of music are good for certain activities."
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"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
Claude Debussy
"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
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"Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time."
Joan Jett
"Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time."
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"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."
John Hall
"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."
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"Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened."
Archie Shepp
"Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened."
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"Music fathoms the sky."
Charles Baudelaire
"Music fathoms the sky."
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"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."
John Eaton
"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."
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"I don't have many easy songs."
Sammy Davis, Jr.
"I don't have many easy songs."
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"I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today."
Buddy Rich
"I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today."
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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."
Joshua Homme
"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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"You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music."
Obie Trice
"You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music."
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"My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic."
Yancy Butler
"My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic."
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"You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition."
Richard Morris
"You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition."
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"Uhm, I'm the one wanting the lessons! I don't want to say too much about it because I'd rather have you see the movie, but he's trying to find his music."
Harvey Keitel
"Uhm, I'm the one wanting the lessons! I don't want to say too much about it because I'd rather have you see the movie, but he's trying to find his music."
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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."
Joshua Homme
"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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"Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium."
Mary Chapin Carpenter
"Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium."
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"We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour."
Travis Barker
"We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour."
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"What passions cannot music raise or quell?"
John Dryden
"What passions cannot music raise or quell?"
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"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."
Lawrence Durrell
"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."
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"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."
Stephan Jenkins
"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."
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"The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of."
Ned Rorem
"The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of."
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"This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different."
Jim Capaldi
"This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different."
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"I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself."
James Taylor
"I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself."
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"There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's."
Peter Hook
"There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's."
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"However long the song is was how long it took us to write it."
Geezer Butler
"However long the song is was how long it took us to write it."
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"And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world."
Kid Rock
"And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world."
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"I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing."
Rosanne Cash
"I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing."
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"That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all."
John Fogerty
"That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all."
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"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
Emanuel Ax
"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
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"I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers."
George Thorogood
"I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers."
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"I make the kind of music I like."
Duncan Sheik
"I make the kind of music I like."
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