Music Is Quotes - Page 20

• Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions.

  Ned Sublette

  Character, Essentials, Migration

  Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.8, Chicago Review Press

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• New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.

  Ned Sublette

  Practice, Keys, New Orleans

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• Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

  Patrick Stump

  Thinking, Important, Important Things

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• Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.

  Haley Reinhart

  Minutes

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• Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

  Julian Casablancas

  Night, All Night

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• It's important to give kids an opportunity to see what the world is about, and music is a fantastic friend.

  Pinchas Zukerman

  Kids, Opportunity, Giving

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• I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

  Jane Siberry

  Climate, Difficult, Household

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• Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

  Cliff Martinez

  Fashion, Taste, Pops

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• All music is good music, if it touches your soul.

  DJ Premier

  Soul, Your Soul

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• There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

  Duane Allman

  Inspirational, Music, Communication

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• Sir! Sir! I'm afraid your music is just too loud!

  CM Punk

  Funny, Wwe, Loud

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• Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

  Dennis Brown

  People, Albums, Looks

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• In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.

  Serj Tankian

  Thinking, America, Issues

  "Singer-songwriter Serj Tankian". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. October 11, 2010.

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• I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

  Iggy Azalea

  Art, Thinking, Stills

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

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• I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Writing, Car, Listening To Music

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• To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Children, Produce

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• I make music because I like making music.

  Natalia Kills

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• My music is like my freedom space.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Space

  "Jada Pinkett-Smith Talks: ‘Madagascar 3,’ ‘Annie’ Remake And Recording Music With Willow Smith". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women

  Sivananda

  Heart, Men, Voice

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

  Howard Shore

  Emotional, Feelings, Want

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• The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Lovely, Lovely Woman

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.298

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• When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

  Marcel Proust

  Music, Consolation

  Marcel Proust (1966). “Letters of Marcel Proust”

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• I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Spiritual, Art

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• The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Kids, Rocks, Rock Music

  "Juliana Hatfield Says Goodbye To The Stage, Hello To Art School". Interview with MiddleMojo.com, middlemojo.com.

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• For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Long, Needs, Enough

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