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Music Quotes
"I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music."
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"You have to have that organizational principle behind the song."
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"I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice."
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"We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side."
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"Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from."
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"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."
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"There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing."
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"The songs become the show, which is how it should be."
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"That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes."
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"And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive."
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"Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music."
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"For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices."
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"After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands."
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"I don't have many easy songs."
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"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."
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"I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear."
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"I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels."
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"Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts."
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"I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs."
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"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"
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"I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around."
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"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
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"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven."
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