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Music Quotes
"A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it."
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"I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers."
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"If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!"
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"When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together."
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"There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake."
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"The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique."
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"When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s."
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"Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound."
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"Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable."
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"I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence."
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"Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it."
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"I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually."
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"The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me."
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"I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music."
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"Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register."
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"In memory everything seems to happen to music."
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"I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message."
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"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music."
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"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."
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"My mother played piano so we always had music around the house."
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"Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be."
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"David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music."
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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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"Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz."
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"There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind."
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"But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things."
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"But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world."
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"People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still."
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"I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band."
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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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