Musical Quotes - Page 13

• I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them strength to get out of abusive relationships or to just pick up a musical instrument and learn to play.

  Lita Ford

  Play, People, Abusive Relationship

  "The Runaways Rocker Lita Ford on "Living Like a Runaway". Interview with Jeff Doles, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 10, 2016.

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• I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres.

  Rob Brown

  Rooms, Spheres, Kind

  "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

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• Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument.

  Max Tundra

  Instruments, Musical Instruments

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the show within fixed cue points, but at the same time there is a constant result that we are trying to achieve each night while performing and operating our system - quite similar in spirit to a broadway show for example: If you go see a musical two nights in a row, the performances are different yet similar.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Night, Two, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love touring, I love making records, but eventually all I want...I want to score. I want people to ask me to score their film or use my songs in cinematic ways. I think the ultimate media is a story that you can watch and feel and have a musical moment to. I think it's my favorite. I love watching something when music is creating motion within the motion.

  Justin Vernon

  Song, Thinking, Media

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.

  Glenn Branca

  Theatre, Add, Elements

  Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.

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• I'm not musically trained and I'm not all these other things. I'm creative with a keyboard and a drum machine, but I can't really make these perfect minimal musical executions - all the things that would be nice with all these refined poems.

  Doseone

  Nice, Perfect, Creative

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

  Prefuse 73

  Hip Hop, Community, Hips

  "Prefuse 73". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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• On a musical level, I do find it rewarding. It's not like I want to blow my brains out while I'm playing these songs from so long ago. I am still surprised by the way the songs are constructed - note choices, the way the arrangements are made, the way these songs are assembled. I'm still amazed at times.

  David Pajo

  Song, Blow, Long Ago

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm a lot more sensitive about music, I think, than most other guys in this particular side of the business. Most of them are beat crazy and beat heavy. I'm more melody. I'm more musical than most of the other ones.

  Frankie Knuckles

  Crazy, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas as well as Pope or Browning but then be so musical that other poems approach pure sound.

  Christian Wiman

  Ideas, Style, Sound

  Source: bigthink.com

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• it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience to touch your music and to hear it and hear it in the room with you and to say, you can't have an entire orchestra there, but you'd kind of like to have the orchestra there.

  Tod Machover

  Silence, Important, World

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I started thinking, my gosh, all this sophisticated software for measuring how Yo-Yo plays, and how he moves and this technique of the bow, I should be able to use similar techniques for measuring the way anybody moves, and so somebody who is not a professional or a trained musician, I should be able to make a musical environment for them.

  Tod Machover

  Moving, Thinking, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there.

  Ian Astbury

  Careers, Happened

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.

  Cornel West

  Mother, Pain, Moving

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• I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

  Missi Pyle

  New York, Long, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

  Steve Martin

  Serious, Comedy, Audience

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• I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the '40s, my mom was a dancer, she met my dad on the road when he was on tour in the '60s. Music is my heart and soul, it's my love.

  Taryn Manning

  Mom, Dad, Grandma

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I was wondering, do we get the best of Swedish music or just the best of Swedish music that speaks English? Sweden has a population of nine million. And with all these acts coming out it just seems like very ripe for musical success. I don't know how they do it.

  Mike Pesca

  Speak English, Population, Sweden

  "Madonna, Santogold Make Dance Records". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 29, 2008.

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• Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

  Michael McKean

  Mistake, Rock N Roll, Jazz

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• I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

  Lee Van Cleef

  Thinking, Comedy, Comic

  Source: www.fistful-of-leone.com

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• I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

  Muhammad Ali

  Thinking, Singing, Broadway

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Song, New York, Play

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.

  Karen Abbott

  Mother, Rose, Ambitious

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

  Karen Abbott

  Rose, Chance, Gypsy

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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