Timeless Music Quotes

• I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

  David Bowie

  Glam Rock, Life And Death, Music And Life

  Rolling Stone #206, February 12, 1976.

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• I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

  David Bowie

  Music, Stars, Water

  "'I'm an Instant Star': The Definitive List of David Bowie's Best Quotes". nationalpost.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

  David Bowie

  People, Amazed, Superhuman

  "Cheap Seats: Bowie talks busts". Interview with Eddie Brown, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. April 27, 2013.

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• If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Reality

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

  David Bowie

  Years, Music And Life, Doe

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

  David Bowie

  Men, Interesting, Music And Life

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• As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

  David Bowie

  Two, Long, Music And Life

  "David Bowie, 21st-Century Entrepreneur". Interview with Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 2002.

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• They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless music.

  Cindy Cashdollar

  Beautiful, Unique, Way

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• Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly brought rock up to a level of jazz-like sophistication and virtuosity, introducing it as a medium worthy of the soloist's art. Oral histories can be tricky things: either penetrating, delivering information and backstories that get to the heart of how timeless music was made. Or too often, they lie flat on the page, a random retelling of repeated facts and reheated yarns. I'm happy to say that Paul's is in that first category.

  Ashley Kahn

  Art, Lying, Rocks

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• I don't make summer jams or albums based on time or seasons; my goal is to make quality music, timeless music.  I'm not looking at the calendar.

  One Be Lo

  Summer, Goal, Quality

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• I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

  Judy Collins

  Hypnosis, Way, Making Time

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• I want to write for people that are trying to do some kind of quality music. What I mean by quality music is not so much the trend, what is hot right now. I don't write trendy, I write what feels good and something that feels good will never get old. Timeless music is what I try to shoot for.

  Ne-Yo

  Mean, Writing, People

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