Music Is Quotes - Page 18

• Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

  Dave Grohl

  Crime, Selling, Should

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• A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.

  Kailash Kher

  India

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• All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

  Genesis P-Orridge

  Way, Psychedelic, Great Music

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• I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

  PJ Harvey

  People, Interviews, Difficult

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.

  Hunter Hayes

  People, Forever, Age

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• To do it always right, that is what music is to me.

  Chuck Mangione

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• My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

  Gerard Way

  Focus, Want

  "My Chemical Romance Alums Join Forces With 'Aquabats!'". Interview with Kimberly Nordyke, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 30, 2013.

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• Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Names, People

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Cosmo Girl Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

  Jimmy Page

  Let Me, Has Beens, One Thing

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• The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Pieces, Comment

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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• For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

  Joe Strummer

  Chance, Vehicle, Good Words

  "1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion". Book by Caroline Coon, 1977.

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• At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

  Mos Def

  Beauty, Art, Mathematics

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• ...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

  Paul Simon

  Beauty, Art, Communication

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• I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

  Barry Manilow

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security, but in those days, way before America, he would say that it's good for music. I will not comment whether we have progressed.

  Hendrik Lenstra

  Numbers, America, Way

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• Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

  Heinrich Heine

  Miracle, Strange, Strange Things

  Letters on the French Stage, 1837.

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• Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided
  with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wind, Oil, Sound

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.338, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

  Steven Morrissey

  Ashes, Way, Popular Music

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• Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

  Bow Wow

  Acting, Credit, Reason

  "Bow Wow has big love for the big screen:'acting is my number-one priority'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. June 10, 2008.

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• Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Dance Music

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• Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

  Morton Feldman

  Cages, Metaphor, Parables

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

  Victor Wooten

  Musician, Language, Treats

  "Music: It's in your head, changing your brain" By Elizabeth Landau, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2012.

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• The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

  Jerome Kern

  Writing, Credit, Likes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All Prodigy music is raw, and that will never change, the production is raw, the sounds are dirty, you can't get away from that. Take it or leave it.

  Liam Howlett

  Dirty, Sound, Never Change

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• Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Powerful, Soul, Needs

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