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Music Quotes
"One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music."
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"I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music."
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"There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake."
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"Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much."
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"I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song."
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"There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap."
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"Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully."
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"Music is too important to be left to professionals."
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"I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me."
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"Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music."
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"I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it."
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"That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert."
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"I always say to myself what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment."
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"I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping."
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"They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist."
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"I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something."
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"I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really."
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"This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume."
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"That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music."
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"I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't."
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"It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing."
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"I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm."
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"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."
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"It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail."
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"And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me."
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"It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it."
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