Music Is Quotes - Page 32

• Music is the only thing that you can share with a million million people and you don't lose, you gain. It helps you to get energy and to live long, because when your soul is very happy then you don't want to die.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  Long, People, Soul

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• Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

  Donald Fagen

  Moving, Rocks, People

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• Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people to understand Doors music is certainly a testament to their intellects.

  Ray Manzarek

  Simple, Doors, People

  "Ray Manzarek on The Doors' Musical Legacy, Whiskey a Go Go, His Mother Cutting Jim Morrison's Hair: From the Billboard Archive". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 4, 2006.

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• Music is not my life. My life is music.

  Criss Jami

  Life Is

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.3, Criss Jami

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• I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.

  Harry S. Truman

  Song, Stars, Giving

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions? The essence of music is revelation.

  Heinrich Heine

  Law, Essence, Doubt

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• A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.

  George Steiner

  Citizens, Today, Classical Music

  George Steiner (1974). “In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture”, p.121, Yale University Press

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• I always did music, but music is an easier thing for me. Making videos and doing comedy things was more of a challenge, so I was more interested in that. Music is a little bit more automatic.

  Reggie Watts

  Challenges, Video, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.

  Elvis Costello

  Waiting, Listening, Painting

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

  Steve Winwood

  Way, Mathematical

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost our representation of our fantasies and so our songs are representations of our fantasies.

  Steve Winwood

  Song, Feelings, Fantasy

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

  Chaka Khan

  Fighting, World, Fields

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The whole basis of the music is that people have these emotional attachments to these songs - whether they love it or hate it. Being able to manipulate that is a really easy way to connect with people.

  Girl Talk

  Song, Hate, Emotional

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• The music is in no way politically based - I'm not trying to make a point about sampling. It may bring up issues but I'm not trying to push it on anyone.

  Girl Talk

  Issues, Trying, Sampling

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love Lady Gaga! I think she's incredible. I think she's so clever - you know, about what she wears and when she does it. Plus, her music is just incredible. You can really compare her to Madonna now - she's really amazing.

  Kerry Ellis

  Clever, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.

  David First

  Humorous, Ideas, Laughing

  "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010.

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• Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.

  David Byrne

  Art, Groups, Doe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Dancehall music is perceived as party music, which it is because of the rhythm, but there are messages that do come through or a purpose of an artist saying something to the world. People usually don't get the messages because of the partying.

  Sean Paul

  Party, Artist, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm a very optimistic person. I have the chance to listen to so much phenomenal music. Connecting with social networking to create music is a progression of what electronic music does anyway - it connects people.

  Paul van Dyk

  Optimistic, People, Networking

  "DJ Paul Van Dyk is Back After A Five Year Break". Hollywood Life Interview, hollywoodlife.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Music belongs to everybody. Having a little clique of the industry tell us what our culture is... I don't think that's healthy. And the Internet is helping us get away from that.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Thinking, Healthy, Littles

  Interview with Amy Kaufman, www.thewrap.com. October 7, 2010.

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• It's funny when people debate about music, because they get so passionate about what they enjoy.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Passionate, Debate

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• There's a great relationship between pop music and the way the body could be seen from the inside - when I was singing or listening to music I would change shape in my head, becoming all kinds of things and people. Music is a way of making your body.

  Jenny Hval

  People, Listening, Singing

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Hips, Form

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2006.

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• With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."

  Nas

  Rap, Cat, Way

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2006.

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• The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.

  Amy Clampitt

  Brain, Ears, Vibrations

  Amy Clampitt (1991). “Predecessors, et cetera: essays”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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