Music Is Quotes - Page 22

• Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

  Greg Lake

  Fun, Self, People

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• The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

  Greg Lake

  Made, Greatest Music

  "Mourning the celebrities who died in 2016 and celebrating the legacy they left behind" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. December 10, 2016.

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• The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

  Bill Dixon

  Player, Magic, Musician

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• Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Music, Secret, Strange

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• Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

  Nat King Cole

  Emotional, Mind, Musician

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• But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

  Casey Kasem

  Messages, Beats

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• Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Miracle, One Day At A Time, Able

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• In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.

  Gus Van Sant

  Couple, Thinking, Hunting

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• It's VH1, it's everywhere, and you know music is just the world right now. People love music.

  Brandy Norwood

  People, World, Music Love

  "Brandy talks new 'Divas' album" by John Gill, www.mtv.com. October 8, 1999.

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• Music is split up now into little pockets.

  Chris Martin

  Pockets, Splits, Littles

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• I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

  Glen Hansard

  Air, Cynical, Poisoning

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• World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Together, Different, World

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• Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

  Carter Burwell

  Adhesive, Narrative, Film

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• Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

  Robin Gibb

  Machines, Karaoke, Bigs

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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• Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

  Irving Azoff

  Marketing, Tools, Source

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• Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Song, Powerful, Writing

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• What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

  Andrew Bird

  Eye, Profound, Effects

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• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  Carla Bley

  Art, Band, Farmers

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• Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

  Derek Bailey

  Playing Music, Theory, Circumstances

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• Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

  Gavin Bryars

  Men, Skills, Ideas

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Problem

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• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Writing, Basic Things, One Thing

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• People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Writing, People, Becoming

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• If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

  Jose Bergamin

  Believe, Let It Go, Ears

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• Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.

  Steve Burns

  Acting, Hobbies, Music Is My Life

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