Music Is Quotes - Page 31

• Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.

  Robert Genn

  Music, Years, Looks

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• The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.

  Steve Jobs

  Stupid, Successful, Thinking

  "Steve Jobs: Rolling Stone's 2003 Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. October 06, 2011.

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• There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.

  Brigham Young

  Heaven, Hell

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• Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

  Buddy Guy

  Song, Couple, Play

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• I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.

  Walt Disney

  Thinking, People, Realization

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• I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Giving, Feels, Give Me

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• It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.

  Pitbull

  Avenues, Involved

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

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• Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements

  Pythagoras

  Opposites, Elements

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• Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

  Mark Morris

  People, Recorded Music

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• It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will system. In Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea he speaks of music as the sound that awakens the will. The rhythm of the music awakens certain life rhythms, ways of living and experiencing life. So it's an awakener of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Art, Organization

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• What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.

  Dave Grohl

  Inspirational, Song, Missing

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• Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Psychics, Feelings

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• Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.

  El-P

  Thinking, Feel Good, Want

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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• Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.

  Michelle Chamuel

  People, Lifestyle, Made

  Interview with Robin Young, nhpr.org.

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• If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

  Quincy Jones

  Mother, Ifs

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Book, Fall, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People need service - great service where music is concerned.

  Jimmy Iovine

  People, Needs, Great Service

  "Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue Talk Filling the 'Hole' With Apple Music". Interview with Steve Knopper, www.rollingstone.com. June 8, 2015.

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• I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Writing, Emotional, Thinking

  "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgaard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

  Kamasi Washington

  Telescopes, Jazz, Microscopes

  "A New Standard: Kamasi Washington's Modern Jazz Revolution". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2015.

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• As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and process and swallow and regurgitate.

  Youth Lagoon

  Mean, Process, Loud

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.

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• The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music industry. The fact is that music is so popular that people are willing to break the law to get it.

  Dave Rowntree

  Law, People, Goes On

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• Everything that’s out now…rap wise and music wise in general [is whack]. I mean, you know whack when you see it. So I’m on a crusade against whackness, and I hope no whackness comes my way. That’s my move, my mission for this record: to combat whackness on all fronts – to make sure that people know what quality music is. It’s not so much about message, but have something to say.

  Jeru the Damaja

  Wise, Rap, Moving

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• The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his photocopier.

  Humphrey Lyttelton

  Partnership, Lennon, Popular Music

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• Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Mistress, Possessive

  "Star-spangled Promenader". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2001.

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• Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

  Jeff Mangum

  Meaningful, Silly

  "Song: "Oh Comely" ("In the Aeroplane Over the Sea")". February 10, 1998.

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