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"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."
Boethius
"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."
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"As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion."
Erykah Badu
"As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion."
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"I write emotional music."
Les Baxter
"I write emotional music."
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"That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music."
David Amram
"That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music."
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"The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet."
June Jordan
"The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet."
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"I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything."
Richard Fleeshman
"I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything."
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"It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things."
Jim Jarmusch
"It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things."
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"But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn."
Edie Brickell
"But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn."
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"I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable."
Paul Scofield
"I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable."
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"I have never stopped playing music."
Jason Schwartzman
"I have never stopped playing music."
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"Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music."
Missy Elliot
"Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music."
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"They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words."
Jay McShann
"They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words."
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"Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me."
Chris Lowe
"Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me."
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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."
Gregory Harrison
"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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"The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with."
Robert Quine
"The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with."
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"I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it."
Janet Jackson
"I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it."
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"I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop."
John Oates
"I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop."
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"I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in."
John Frusciante
"I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in."
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"I'm doing music, and we both want to do some drama."
Kel Mitchell
"I'm doing music, and we both want to do some drama."
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"Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert."
June Allyson
"Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert."
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"For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury."
Wim Wenders
"For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury."
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"Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks."
Martin Gore
"Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks."
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"If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out."
Levon Helm
"If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out."
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"I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music."
Itzhak Perlman
"I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music."
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"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."
William Stafford
"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."
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"Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony."
Hans Hofmann
"Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony."
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"I don't find music being less important than, like, politics."
Kurt Loder
"I don't find music being less important than, like, politics."
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"My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues."
Mark Knopfler
"My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues."
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"So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns."
Terry Riley
"So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns."
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"These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas."
Elvis Costello
"These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas."
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"You've got to really know your song, inside and out."
Nick Lowe
"You've got to really know your song, inside and out."
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"Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards."
Keith Richards
"Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards."
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"You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use."
Steve Lacy
"You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use."
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"So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument."
Miroslav Vitous
"So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument."
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"Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played."
Dave Lombardo
"Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played."
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"Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music."
Isaac Stern
"Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music."
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"I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything."
Gyorgy Ligeti
"I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything."
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"Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well."
Tanya Tucker
"Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well."
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"When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out."
Alanis Morissette
"When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out."
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"I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened."
Loretta Lynn
"I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened."
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"My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have."
Stephan Jenkins
"My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have."
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"Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing."
Rod Stewart
"Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing."
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"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
John Philip Sousa
"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
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"To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones."
Reba McEntire
"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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"I think one of the best things you can do, no matter what you play, is to take up piano. Music is based on chord changes and harmonies, and you can get 'em more out of an instrument like piano, where you can hear all the notes at once."
John Haley Sims
"I think one of the best things you can do, no matter what you play, is to take up piano. Music is based on chord changes and harmonies, and you can get 'em more out of an instrument like piano, where you can hear all the notes at once."
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"It can even be a single note which defines the entire song."
Leon Redbone
"It can even be a single note which defines the entire song."
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"California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music."
Harry Dean Stanton
"California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music."
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"The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise."
Kenny G
"The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise."
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"I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people."
Bobby Vinton
"I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people."
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"But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness."
Dwight Yoakam
"But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness."
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