Music Quotes - Page 38

• I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

  Robbie Williams

  Listening, Albums, I Can

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• I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.

  Robbie Williams

  Men, Music Man, Mum

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• Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Careers, Phases, Muse

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• The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

  Dennis Wilson

  Beach, Boys, Groups

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• I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

  April Winchell

  Funny, Cute, Boyfriend

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• I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

  Amy Winehouse

  Guitar, Study, Trumpets

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• Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

  Edgar Winter

  Spiritual, People, Together

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• I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

  Norman Wisdom

  Boys, Band, Taught

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

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• Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

  Reese Witherspoon

  June, People, Cash

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• It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  People, Mechanic, Characteristics

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• There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

  Robert Wyatt

  Ideas, Fields, Brilliant Ideas

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• I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

  Zakk Wylde

  Football, Playing Music

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• I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

  Thom Yorke

  Darkness, Trash, Pops

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

  Thom Yorke

  Art, Writing, Mean

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

  Neil Young

  Mistake, Made, Labeling

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• Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Rocks, Views, Albums

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• When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Thinking, People, Suing

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• I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

  Tom Stoppard

  Mean, Two, Twenties

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

  Hermann Hesse

  Thinking, Moral, Found

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• How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Enemy, Sound

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

  B. B. King

  Mother, Source, American Music

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• Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sheep, Soul

  "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works".

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• I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

  Alanis Morissette

  I Am What I Am

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• And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Song, Mean, Thinking

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, February 1, 1999.

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