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Music Quotes
"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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"Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records."
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"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'"
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"A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy."
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"I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference."
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"Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other."
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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 always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing."
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"Mathematics is the music of reason."
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"I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough."
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"Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit."
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"I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A."
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"And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach."
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"My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together."
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"When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly."
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"I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs."
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"I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand."
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"I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years."
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"My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak."
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"Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry."
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"We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics."
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"Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way."
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"It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?"
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"I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music."
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"I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it."
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