Famous Quotes: Music

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
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We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
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As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
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Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.
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I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.
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Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming.
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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.
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Better is the enemy of good.
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You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
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We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.
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