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Music Quotes
"Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual."
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"The songs become the show, which is how it should be."
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"Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable."
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"I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence."
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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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"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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"Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts."
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"I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late."
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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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"So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music."
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"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
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"Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet."
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"I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music."
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"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."
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"No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs."
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"My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it."
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"Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films."
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"If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately."
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"I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable."
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"Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them."
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"Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid."
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"I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths."
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"I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is."
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"Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music."
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