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Music Quotes
"That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all."
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"I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late."
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"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
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"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does."
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"I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers."
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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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"The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult."
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"Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes."
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"Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language."
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"We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down."
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"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."
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"I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we dont even know, and make music and whatever."
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"It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage."
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"We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music."
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"In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music."
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"Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody."
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"Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?"
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"I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland."
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"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you."
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"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."
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"I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make."
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"Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't."
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"Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system."
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"Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes."
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"I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it."
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"Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media."
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"My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him."
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"If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive."
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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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"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."
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