Famous Quotes: Music

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
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It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.
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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
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My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.
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I call architecture frozen music.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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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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I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
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Sports and politics don't mix.
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When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
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People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.
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His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
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