Original Music Quotes

• 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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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

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• I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

  Grace Slick

  Song, Simplicity, Recording Studio

  "Summer of Love: 40 Years Later / Grace Slick" by Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. May 20, 2007.

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• On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I think it's really cool that I get to do my own thing now.

  Melanie Martinez

  Thinking, Voice, Singing

  Source: groundsounds.com

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• I think the transition between singing covers on a reality show to being able to do my own thing was really exciting. I'm no longer singing covers every second, and people are actually getting to hear my own original music.

  Melanie Martinez

  Reality, Thinking, People

  "Interview: “Dollhouse” singer Melanie Martinez plays nice with GroundSounds". Interview with Jon Berrien, www.groundsounds.com. May 28, 2014.

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• I'm from the school of putting a lot of hours of practice into playing. But at the same time you have to write original music - that's really important, because that's the things that's going to separate you from everybody else, that's going to give you your unique voice as a music that you create.

  John Petrucci

  Writing, School, Unique

  Source: www.wikimetal.com.br

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• I was working on a piece for one of the things I was dancing to and I needed to have original music. I didn't know where to begin, I'm so bad at computers, and I remembered that he actually made music. I asked Astro Raw if he'd be interested in scoring and he said yes.

  Jillian Hervey

  Dancing, Pieces, Computer

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• This amazing breakthrough full-length revolutionary audio uses a powerful new combination of a subliminal hypnotic induction AND beautiful original music (created with a really cool ancient musical instrument) AND brand-new subliminal clearing commands ALL designed to begin to clear your unconscious blocks of anything and everything in the way of your attracting what you really want – and this incredible one-hour audio does it without any effort at all on your part!

  Joe Vitale

  Beautiful, Powerful, Block

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• One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Successful, Thinking, Years

  "Readers recommend: songs about obstacles" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2015.

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• Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

  Missy Elliot

  Hip Hop, Creative, Hips

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• I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

  Danny Boyle

  Inspirational, Dance, Musical

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• One of the first decisions I made, as the director of "Hide and Seek," was that our film would be silent and use underscoring of original music that I was planning on composing. The decision was mostly predicated on knowing how time consuming the editing of dialogue can be and given the various locations we shot in, I didn't want to worry about having to mix room tones in such a short amount of time.

  Garth Kravits

  Knowing, Editing, Worry

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• I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

  Colin Meloy

  People, Lines, Want

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• I've always been making original music. I think that when I sat down with Losing Focus, I approached it different. I had a clearer understanding of who I was talking to, because I was able to go out and tour and see them right in front of me. I wanted to speak to them and speak about this lifestyle.

  Young De

  Thinking, Talking, Focus

  Interview with Bill Rock, 411mania.com. January 25, 2015.

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• Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is simply a miniature of the original music, which is creation itself, expressed in tone and rhythm.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Reality, Tone, Creation

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• I have been looking for a name for years and of course it sounds like it would be easy. Americana came along for the same reason. But to me Americana means Original music with prominent folk/rock influence. Ameripolitan is Original music with prominent roots influence.

  Dale Watson

  Mean, Rocks, Years

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• I think anybody that is going to be taken seriously in [music] industry needs to produce their own original music.

  Paul Oakenfold

  Taken, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• There are a lot of disadvantages with the YouTube stigma, because no one wants to be known as just a cover band. It's all about the original music.

  Alex Goot

  Band, Want, Youtube

  Source: www.meldmagazine.com.au

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• A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God; an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.

  Olivier Messiaen

  Spiritual, Stars, Doors

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• The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, People, Doe

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• In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

  Mike Figgis

  Mirrors, Development, Way

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• I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

  Jane Siberry

  Climate, Difficult, Music Is

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• When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing

  Suzanne Ciani

  Labels, Records, Firsts

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• I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

  Bill Mumy

  Different, Lucky, Favorites Things

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

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