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Music Quotes


"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."


"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."


"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."


"I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable."


"Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music."


"Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me."


"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."


"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."


"I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in."


"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."


"For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury."


"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."


"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."


"I don't find music being less important than, like, politics."


"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."


"You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use."


"So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument."


"Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played."


"Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music."


"I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything."


"Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well."


"I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened."


"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."


"To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones."


"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."


"It can even be a single note which defines the entire song."


"California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music."
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