Great Music Quotes - Page 4

• There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the people lift you to a certain height so that you could even be visible and get any kind of recognition.

  Pharrell Williams

  Art, People, Height

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Musical, Detroit, Towns

  Interview by Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd gotten from Alan [Lomax]. Alan said, Pete, look at all this great music around. You never hear it on the radio, but it's right there, great music.

  Pete Seeger

  Air, Looks, Lessons

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

  Miles Davis

  Musician, Spirit, Passing It

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• Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

  Dodie Smith

  Reading, Musician, Paper

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• All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.

  Steve Reich

  Kicking, Pieces, Alive

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.

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• I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap.

  Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

  Trying, Musician, Feels

  "Exclusive Interview: Jim “Dandy” Mangrum Southern Rock Pioneer with Black Oak Arkansas". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockhereandnow.com. December 5, 2012.

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• The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

  Margaret Fuller

  Soul, Musician, Great Musician

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.222

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• Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.

  Joe Zawinul

  Entertaining

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• Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Girl, Creativity, Mtv

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Teacher, Inspire, Mediocre

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• My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

  Chris Thile

  Writing, Would Be, Baroque Music

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• Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'

  Ben Horowitz

  Believe, Musical Genius, People

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• His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!

  Romain Rolland

  Distance, Hero, Book

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• I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

  Josephine de La Baume

  Thinking, Style, Irony

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• Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!

  Mel Brooks

  Book, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

  Michael Buble

  Nice, Guy, Trying

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• When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and dramatic artists. And I'm presented with costumes and great music to choose from and sets. I travel a certain amount of places, so I've been living in a bubble. And I like it.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Morning, Artist

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• Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.

  Christina Aguilera

  Usual, Use, Want

  "Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton and Pharrell Williams Talk The Voice". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. Februart 24, 2015.

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• A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.

  John Waters

  Moving, Kids, Cities

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.

  Janelle Monae

  Moving, Ifs

  "Going Androidgenous With Janelle Monáe". Interview with Victoria Rossi, www.motherjones.com. November 29, 2010.

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• I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these free-jazz records and play them for me. So it was in my early teens that I started to listen to jazz.

  Alasdair MacLean

  Teacher, School, Lucky

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.

  Gene Simmons

  Stupid, Listening, Ears

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

  Ry Cooder

  Beautiful, Musician, Tunes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look.

  Ry Cooder

  Musician, Looks, Tradition

  Source: www.avclub.com

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