Music Is Quotes - Page 33

• Music is magic. It's my favourite drug: it really has an effect on me mentally and physically. It's such a rush.

  Craig Nicholls

  Drug, Magic, Favourite

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

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• The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

  Alice Coltrane

  Heart, Piano, Soul

  "Alice Coltrane, Wife of John, Left Her Own Mark". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. January 16, 2007.

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• Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.

  Paul Morley

  Attention, Ongoing, Careful

  Paul Morley (2015). “Words & Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record.

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Real, Kids

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

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• Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Passion, Outlook On Life, Expression

  "Rubinstein Was His Music" by John Guinn, Detroit Free Press, p. 8D, December 22, 1982.

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• I wanted to keep the music very electronic, very filmic, and give it an almost sci-fi like quality. Music is a necessity for me. I go into the studio at least five days a week, every week, so once I had the idea and the template, the process was quick and fun.

  Martin Gore

  Fun, Ideas, Giving

  "Depeche Mode's Martin Gore Announces Solo Album MG, Shares 'Europa Hymn'" by Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It's just different instrumentation.

  Amy Lee

  School, Different, Realization

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• Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.

  Samuel Pepys

  Differences, Mind, Age

  Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1983). “The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion”, p.259, Univ of California Press

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• Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

  Austin O'Malley

  Music

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• I think music is a spiritual way to communicate transcendental things.

  Christopher Owens

  Spiritual, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

  Robert Hilburn

  Country, Cheating, Song

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.

  Negash Ali

  Believe, People, Desire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities.

  Julia Gillard

  Possibility, Great Things, New Possibilities

  "Julia Gillard: 20 people, 20 questions". www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2013.

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• Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, Directors, Tools

  Source: collider.com

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• I can honestly say my music is always going to be greater than my business side. Because I'm naturally a musician. And I don't have to get paid, I don't even have to have businesses. Business is business. And music is life.

  Lil Wayne

  Musician, Sides, Music Is Life

  "Lil Wayne focuses on business, fashion". Interview with Ryan Pearson, www.cleveland.com. June 19, 2012.

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• Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Creative, Tools, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Inspire, Want, Able

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

  John Marin

  Art, Greatness, Wonderful

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.

  Anton Webern

  Ideas, Want, Language

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.

  Errollyn Wallen

  Air, Ends

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• Do anything you wanna do—but from [the heart]. Music is a thing from the heart, from the soul, just like anything else you do, man. And you can be the best, you can be what you wanna be. That’s right! You can do what you wanna do. I believe—I’m a blues player. I never been a millionaire, but let me tell you something—I think I am. Cause I got this. I’ve got what it take. And I don’t care if you don’t believe me, man, but I know you do. Because this is what it’s all about. Anything you do, if you wanna do it and you love it, you rich. You a millionaire, man.

  Hubert Sumlin

  Believe, Heart, Player

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• November 18. . . I dig musicians, I feel they have the most to offer me mentally and emotionally because they think basically along the same lines that I do; extremely creative people. Music is Life. As Captain Beefheart once said 'God is a perfect musical note.

  Pamela Des Barres

  Thinking, Perfect, People

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• Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

  Adam Gopnik

  Choices Made, Mind, Easy

  "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.

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• I think J.S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets, but also as good as it gets, period -- as good as existence, reality, life and the world.

  Andrew W.K.

  Reality, Thinking, Accomplishment

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

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• The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the American dream come true, and a major step toward democratizing how music is discovered.

  Ali Partovi

  Dream, Ideas, Steps

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