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Music Quotes
"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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"Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it."
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"When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me."
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"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."
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"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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"Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm."
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"So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage."
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"I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts."
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"Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying."
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"The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you."
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"Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication."
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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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"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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"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."
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"I think there's enough room in country music for everybody."
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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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"We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist."
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"I don't find music being less important than, like, politics."
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"Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool."
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"I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it."
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"The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs."
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"Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it."
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"This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it."
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"Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool."
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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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"I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out."
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"I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit."
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"We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side."
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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."
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