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Music Quotes
"There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme."
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"More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs)."
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"I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next."
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"I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine."
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"This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship."
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"Education, for me, has helped me in my music."
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"People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it."
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"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."
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"A song is the most intangible thing in the world."
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"The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on."
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"I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star."
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"I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else."
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"Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions."
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"I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry."
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"There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument."
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"Not really interested in covering other bands songs to be honest."
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"The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens."
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"Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times."
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"I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that."
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"I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record."
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"I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener."
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"Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't."
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"I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it."
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"At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards."
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"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
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"We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it."
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"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."
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