Famous Quotes: Music

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.
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I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
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When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
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I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
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But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.
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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
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There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
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Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
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And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
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Music is a performance and needs the audience.
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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
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Popular music sucks so bad right now.
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What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
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To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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