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Music Quotes
"The songs become the show, which is how it should be."
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"I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic."
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"I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz."
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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've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music."
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"Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music."
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"Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music."
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"When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way."
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"I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?"
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"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven."
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"I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?"
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"I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground."
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"But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics."
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"I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies."
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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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"I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to."
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"In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film."
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"I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted."
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"Music is escapism, it's entertainment."
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"Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much."
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"When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different."
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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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"They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same."
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"I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent."
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"When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently."
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"Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion."
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"His words and music weren't just joined; they were inseparably married."
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"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."
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