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Music Quotes


"But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music."


"The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence."


"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."


"The songs become the show, which is how it should be."


"Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so."


"I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music."


"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."


"The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level."


"The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me."


"I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs."


"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."


"In memory everything seems to happen to music."


"I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge."


"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."


"My mother played piano so we always had music around the house."


"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."


"Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds."


"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."


"Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz."


"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."


"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."


"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."


"I don't have many easy songs."
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