Music Is Quotes - Page 28

• Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

  Simon Le Bon

  Language Barriers, Generations, Communicate

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• For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.

  Tony Levin

  Artist, Love Is, Bass

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• It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care.

  Aimee Mann

  Important, Care, Want

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• Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!

  Alfred Molina

  Ipods, Pockets, Essentials

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

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• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

  Barry Manilow

  Style, World, Great American

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

  Barry Manilow

  Feelings, Passion For Music, Materials

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2017

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• I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.

  Chrisette Michele

  Country, Art, School

  "Chrisette Michele shocked at No. 1 standing". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2009.

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• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  Ian MacKaye

  Jokes

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• Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

  St. Vincent

  Challenges, Easy

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• One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.

  St. Vincent

  Country, Thinking, Appreciate

  "St Vincent: soundtrack of my life". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Writing, Silence, Needs

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• Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.

  Michael K. Williams

  Character

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• For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

  Rick Wright

  Thinking, Play, Meditating

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• Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Passion, Made, Ifs

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• Music is extremely important to have on photo shoots - it brings the mood.

  Raquel Zimmermann

  Important, Mood, Photo Shoots

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• I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.

  Jonathan Hull

  Communication, Expression, Soul

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Children, Men

  "Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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• Popular music is like a big party, and it’s a thrill sneaking in rather than being invited. Every once in a while, a guy with his shirt on inside out, wearing lipstick and a pillbox hat gets a chance to speak.

  Tom Waits

  Party, Guy, Thrill

  "The inspirational Mr Tom Waits". Interview with Steve Oney, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 14, 2006.

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• Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

  Kurt Cobain

  Alternatives, Mainstream, Alternative Music

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• I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

  Annie Lennox

  Passion, Want

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• And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.

  Donna Tartt

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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• Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Powerful, Heart, Soul

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• In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Community, Used

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• Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

  George Gershwin

  Inspiration, Hard Work, Writing

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• What I love most about playing in front of people has something to do with a certain kind of energy exchange. The attention and appreciation of my audience feeds back into my playing. It really seems as if there is a true and equal give and take between performer and listener, making me aware of how much I depend on my audience. And since the audience is different every night, the music being played will differ too. Every space I performed in has its own magic and spirit.

  Nils Frahm

  Appreciation, Night, Space

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