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"But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music."
Isaac Hanson
"But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music."
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"I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs."
Joanna Newsom
"I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs."
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"We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them."
Nobuo Uematsu
"We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them."
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"I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references."
Joanna Newsom
"I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references."
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"The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence."
Jon Fishman
"The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence."
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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."
Terry Riley
"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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"I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture."
Etta James
"I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture."
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"I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music."
Link Wray
"I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music."
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"The songs become the show, which is how it should be."
Kristin Hersh
"The songs become the show, which is how it should be."
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"I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music."
Matthew Bourne
"I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music."
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"Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so."
Nadia Boulanger
"Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so."
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"I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music."
Maria Mitchell
"I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music."
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"I think it was 37 years that I did music."
Barbara Mandrell
"I think it was 37 years that I did music."
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"It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession."
Wayne Coyne
"It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession."
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"Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music."
Johnny Rivers
"Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music."
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"The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level."
Billy Higgins
"The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level."
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"Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor."
David Soul
"Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor."
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"Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that."
Annie Lennox
"Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that."
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"First of all I listen to music. I like music."
Gyorgy Ligeti
"First of all I listen to music. I like music."
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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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"The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me."
June Allyson
"The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me."
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"This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music."
Victoria de los Angeles
"This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music."
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"I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs."
Joanna Newsom
"I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs."
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"I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out."
Tommy Shaw
"I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out."
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"Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies."
R. Kelly
"Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies."
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"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
Bruce Springsteen
"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
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"Whether you like another band's music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us."
Adam Rich
"Whether you like another band's music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us."
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"It's the music that brings us together."
John Oates
"It's the music that brings us together."
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"We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person."
Adam Rich
"We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person."
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"In memory everything seems to happen to music."
Tennessee Williams
"In memory everything seems to happen to music."
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"I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge."
Sean Lennon
"I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge."
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"I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse."
Bing Crosby
"I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse."
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"In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy."
John Frusciante
"In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy."
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"The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer."
Robert Fitzgerald
"The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer."
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"I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions."
Matt Cameron
"I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions."
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"We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound."
Zoltan Kodaly
"We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound."
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"My mother played piano so we always had music around the house."
Johnny Winter
"My mother played piano so we always had music around the house."
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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."
Eddie Van Halen
"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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"Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds."
Richard Wagner
"Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds."
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"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning."
Aaron Copland
"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning."
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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."
Joanna Newsom
"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."
Marc Ribot
"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."
Ivor Novello
"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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"We've got many different sides of music to us."
John Otto
"We've got many different sides of music to us."
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"The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me."
Michael Tilson Thomas
"The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me."
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"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
Martin Luther
"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
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"Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play."
Jon English
"Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play."
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"I don't have many easy songs."
Sammy Davis, Jr.
"I don't have many easy songs."
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"Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me."
Moira Kelly
"Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me."
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"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."
Robert Browning
"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."
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