Famous Quotes: Music

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
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Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
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The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
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I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
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Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.
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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
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A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
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Better is the enemy of good.
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That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
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Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
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Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration.
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