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Music Quotes
"I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance."
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"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
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"You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all."
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"The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique."
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"The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to."
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"I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting."
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"I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world."
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"The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me."
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"The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week."
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"One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic."
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"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
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"Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music."
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"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture.""
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"Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy."
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"I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind."
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"I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project."
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"When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly."
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"The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear."
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"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven."
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"Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations."
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"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."
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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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