Great Music Quotes - Page 8

• Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

  Bryan White

  Music, Country, Real

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• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  Taylor Swift

  Fall, Appreciate, Kind

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• I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

  Katey Sagal

  Teenager, High School, Turn Me

  "'Sons of Anarchy's' Katey Sagal talks about her other life, as a singer". "Los Angeles Times" Interview, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 29, 2010.

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• I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

  Queen Latifah

  Art, Cutting, Want

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• I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos I’ve heard. The girls sing and play as one and their work is characterised by great musicality. They are not only very talented instrumentalists and singers but they write really good songs as well.

  Ralph McTell

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.

  Moby

  Song, Optimistic, Thinking

  "Is Moby's Music Still Good When Its Free?". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. March 31, 2008.

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• The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

  Bono

  Artist, Rolling, Albums

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• I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

  Artur Schnabel

  Music, Music Is

  "My Life and Music" by Artur Schnabel, (p. 121), 1961.

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• I do think that really great music will divide people, and people will love and hate it at the same time.

  Luke Pritchard

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Deftones is always my main focus. I’ve been doing it the longest and it’s definitely a priority. I think of these as projects. It’s not like I’m unfulfilled with a need to find another outlet. I look at it as making music with my friends, and I’m blessed that they’re great musicians.

  Chino Moreno

  Blessed, Thinking, Focus

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• I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.

  Cher Lloyd

  Care, Want, Proud

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• I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Musician, Berlin, September

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• Nowadays, not to say that that doesn't happen, but music is made a lot almost in a laboratory where you get one guy working in one studio, they send the file to another guy in some other part of the world, they send it back and then they send it this way and that way. Musicianship is kind of - there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, some great music is made that way.

  Dave Koz

  Guy, World, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Musician, Bills, Feels

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• What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

  Mickey Hart

  Mean, Player, People

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• Rev Run is a living legend of Hip-Hop, who's still making great music, but now he's also the dad to an amazing family, ... This series takes us inside his world. It's a kind of a reality 'Father Knows Best' with comedy, heart, Hip-Hop and drama-all under one roof at Run's House.

  Tony DiSanto

  Running, Dad, Father

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• There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Art, Real, Feelings

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.

  Dave Mustaine

  Trying, Musician, Want

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• A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Beautiful, Pieces, Matter

  "Composers on Music". Book by Josiah Fisk, p. 364, 1997.

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• In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

  Sean O Faolain

  Alternatives

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• Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

  Stevie Wonder

  Music, Today, Kenny

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• I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

  Steven Adler

  Stupid, Years, Two

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• From the moment I first heard Steve Laury play,
  I knew he was dangerous . . . He is an extremely gifted musician who makes great music! We go back 25 years and Steve will always be my dear friend.

  Nathan East

  Years, Play, Musician

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• It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Spiritual, Mind

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• Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Musician, Doe

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