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Music Quotes
"Music. It's all creativity right here, right now."
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"It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music."
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"The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music."
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"We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished."
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"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."
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"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."
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"I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes."
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"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
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"But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places."
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"If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part."
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"People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things."
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"I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know."
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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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"You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song."
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"A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy."
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"Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own."
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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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"That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all."
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"The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal."
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"But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it."
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"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."
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"Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good."
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"Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!"
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"There's something inimical about the camera and song."
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"I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers."
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"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."
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