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Music Quotes
"To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones."
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"There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is."
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"If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!"
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"The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique."
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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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"When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s."
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"And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive."
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"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."
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"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
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"I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music."
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"Mathematics is the music of reason."
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"Rush has never been a spontaneous group. We may be spontaneous in our writing, we may be spontaneous as individuals in our day to day lives... certainly I think am and always have been, but I think when it comes to Rush and our presentation of our music it's quite controlled."
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"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres."
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"Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing."
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"Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played."
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"I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out."
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"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
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"People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still."
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"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
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"Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts."
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"When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way."
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"I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes."
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"Music is too important to be left to professionals."
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"I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs."
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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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"As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music."
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"Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle."
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