Music Is Quotes - Page 24

• I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.

  Andy Gibb

  Australia, Years, England

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• I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.

  Brian Austin Green

  Jobs, Artist, Cds

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• So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.

  David Guetta

  Independent, Needs, Aliens

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

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• My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

  Gordon Getty

  Personality, Century, Humans

  "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

  Jan Garbarek

  Thinking, Keys, Needs

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• Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

  Michel Gondry

  Pops, More Money, Pop Music

  "Surreal To Reel" By Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

  Joan Armatrading

  Writing, Writing Music, Born

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• I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Spiritual, Exercise, Imagination

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• I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.

  Phil Anselmo

  Thinking, Sea, World

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

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• Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

  Ryan Adams

  Football

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

  Ryan Adams

  Beautiful, Song, Moving

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

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• I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

  Danny Elfman

  Thinking, Differences, Understanding

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• I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock.

  Greg Evigan

  Son, Rocks, Years

  "It's Greg Evigan vs. a Three-Headed Dog!". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. October 28, 2005.

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• Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Emotional, Credit, Want

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• I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

  Travis Tritt

  Country, Clubs, Members

  Song: Country Club, Album: Country Club

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• Music is reflection of self.

  Eminem

  Art, Reflection, Media

  Song: Sing for the Moment, Album: The Eminem Show

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• Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

  Frank Zappa

  Country, Iran, Politics

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• I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

  Roger Daltrey

  Art, Live Life, Form

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• Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

  Michael Franti

  War, Today, Against War

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• I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Writing, Artist, Guitar

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• I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50 years ago, I would have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produce everything I needed with live instrumentalists, so I don't need electronics.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Years, Sound, Needs

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• One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

  Lesley Garrett

  Artist, Media, Groups

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• When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

  Tom Glazer

  Music, Today, Folks

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• Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

  Barry Hannah

  Writing, Thinking, Two

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• I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

  Charlie Hunter

  Would Be, Jam, Band

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