Famous Quotes: Music

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.
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Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.
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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
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I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
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I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
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I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.
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Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.
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Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
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Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
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It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.
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I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
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We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
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