Music Is Quotes - Page 25

• It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

  Dhani Harrison

  Growing Up, Kind, Natural

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

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• Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Writing, Influential, Film

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• Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Running, Song, Titles

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• My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Trying, Intention, Futuristic

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• I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

  PJ Harvey

  Growing Up, Communication, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. February 15, 2011.

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• I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

  Peter Hook

  Thinking, Mind, Would Be

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• Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.

  Chanel Iman

  Bed, Wake Up, Mood

  "Exclusive: Chanel Iman Behind-the-Scenes for Skullcandy". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

  Alan Jackson

  Fire, Stills

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

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• Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

  David Johansen

  Hate, Acting, Roles

  "My mind is as blank as fresh snow" by John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.

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• Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

  David Johansen

  Playing Music, World, Bearable

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• Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

  Lara St. John

  Art, Who We Are, Next

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• When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

  Leila Josefowicz

  Effort, Gestures, Want

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• A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

  Norah Jones

  Subtle, Enjoy

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 2008.

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• Music is an important part of my writing process.

  Peter James

  Writing, Important, Process

  "Peter James: My Media". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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• Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

  Young Jeezy

  Leader

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• Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.

  Young Jeezy

  How You Feel, Feels

  "Young Jeezy Defends 'My President' Against Bill O'Reilly" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. January 22, 2009.

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• And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

  Zola Jesus

  Release, Impulse, Feels

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• We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.

  Charles Kelley

  Country, Rocks, Long

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• Music is my way of getting away from everything. It means a lot to me.

  Jesse McCartney

  Mean, Way, Get Away

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• I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

  Stephen Stills

  Rock And Roll, Names, Flying

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• Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

  Paul Simon

  Cutting, Knives, Rock And Roll

  Song: God Bless The Absentee

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• Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

  Karolina Kurkova

  Pleasure, Pleasures Of Life

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• Music is my first love.

  Mandy Moore

  First Love, Firsts

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• I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Successful, Doing You, Way

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• When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

  Samantha Morton

  Sympathy, Real, Rap

  "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.

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