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Music Quotes
"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."
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"I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar. My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! It's refreshing!!"
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"I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations."
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"If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel."
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"Music is one of the easy things to eliminate because of budget cuts, but it's important to give kids the avenue to express themselves."
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"In my view a jazz musician is a great musician."
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"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."
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"Music - good music, great music - had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses' ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something."
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
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"We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life - and even saves lives."
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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
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"Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment."
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"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."
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"It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to."
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"I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have."
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"On the radio, turned low, Reba sang of hard times with the full authority of a cross-eyed redheaded millionaire."
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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
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"In those years, hip-hop saved my life. I was still half alien to the people around me. I loved them, mostly because I'd realized that there was no other choice. Hip-hop gave me a common language, but that August, on liberated land, I found that there were other ways of speaking, a mother tongue that, no matter age, no matter interest, lived in us all."
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"Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover."
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"Music shortens the distance between all people."
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"I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country."
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"That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work."
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"'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece."
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