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Music Quotes
"I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props."
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"Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is."
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"I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first."
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"We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics."
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"The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music."
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"I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important."
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"If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same."
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"Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music."
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"Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative."
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"Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody."
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"As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief."
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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."
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"The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that."
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"Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced."
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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."
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"When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets."
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"You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days."
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"Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way."
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"I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene."
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"I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it."
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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."
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"I don't find music being less important than, like, politics."
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"One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community."
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"The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative."
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