New Music Quotes

• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Unrequited Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Lying

  'Arcades' (1645) l. 68

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• I was born with music inside me

  Ray Charles

  Musical Life, Inspirational Music, Musician

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• Not that there's anything wrong with that.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Memorable, Kramer, Thirsty

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Appreciation, Teacher

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

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• There is music in all things, if men had ears.

  Lord Byron

  Music, Men, Ears

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.316, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

  William Congreve

  Inspirational, Music, Rocks

  1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc.1.

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Music, Angel

  Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”

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• The proliferation of new music groups and individual performers focusing on new music today is heartening. On the one hand the culture is very resistant to new things, and yet it continues to change and grow.

  Michael Hersch

  Hands, Groups, Culture

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• If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm happy about the fact that my audience is very open to new music. They're dying for new music. So all I got to do is get up there and show them what I'm doing, and they go oh yeah, I like that.

  Kenny Loggins

  Dying, Facts, Get Up

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

  George Clinton

  Hate, Parent, Rebel

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• You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

  Sebastian Bach

  Way, Looks

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• The American new music scene is remarkably vibrant.

  Michael Hersch

  Scene

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• I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Writing, Past, Done

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.

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• I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

  Fergie

  Notebook, Ideas, Perfect

  "Fergie teases 'notebooks full of ideas' for new music" by Christina Garibaldi, www.mtv.com. September 14, 2012.

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• Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.

  Hayley Williams

  Book, Listening, My Friends

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• London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.

  Jeff Beck

  Ducks, Want, London

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• Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.

  DJ Quik

  Artist, College, Disrespect

  Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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• So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Music, Thinking, Guitar

  "Lee Ann Womack Hits Road With Toby Keith". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2005.

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• It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It's loss would create a very large black hole.

  Wayne Coyne

  Loss, Comforting, Black

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• In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

  Sxip Shirey

  Way, Urban, Tradition

  "Sxip Shirey’s Magic Journey: Sonic New York" by Holly Cara Price, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2010.

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• I just went into the studio and did it all in one take. All I was thinking about was the next record; I had already sourced the tracks I wanted to use. I'd been thinking a lot about it and I wanted to represent myself, Leeds and fabric. I'm not very nationalistic, but I wanted to represent what was coming out of Britain as well as at the moment there's a lot of really good new music.

  Ralph Lawson

  Thinking, Track, Use

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• All songs have those X factors. I couldn't even explain or describe what will grab me about them but it's all music that I'm usually listening to. I'm always looking there to hear new music and see what's going on so that's usually when I'll hear something and be like "Wow, that melody is really crazy.

  Hoodie Allen

  Song, Crazy, Listening

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