Great Music Quotes - Page 7

• Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife... job. Now he wants to be a toy again.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Jobs, Real, Wife

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• Basically [Louise] Brandeis was a Jeffersonian. And you say the timing is great, and it is in a lot of senses, except not for [Tomas] Jefferson, because this is a Hamiltonian moment, and he's the rock star of the minute with a great musical.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Stars, Rocks, Musical

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Maybe the idea of being a rockstar or being the one who's recording or playing, sort of doesn't really matter as much anymore, when you're surrounded by great musicians who bring their spirit, their own talent.

  Adrian Grenier

  Ideas, Musician, Matter

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.

  Alicia Keys

  Art, Inspire, Listening

  "Alicia Keys Talks Inspiration, Family And Prayer With ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2013.

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• When a friend puts out a new album and it's really great, it makes you want to do something that great and it makes you get yourself in gear. It's healthy competition that helps make some great music.

  Matt Wertz

  Healthy, Competition, Gears

  Source: maroonweekly.com

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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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• I feel like it's my responsibility to be the greatest I can be. If I go out there and start making terrible music, I don't expect people to like me. If I'm making great music and there's no reason for people to not like me, that's when it's going to make me upset. People just need to take a chance and listen.

  Justin Bieber

  Responsibility, People, Upset

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Way, Fit, Salsa

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• If you make great music, you can become a mold breaker or a trailblazer. It's a little scary to do that because you can't always see what's in front of you, but you're clearing out a path for people behind you to follow.

  Anthony Evans

  Clearing Out, People, Scary

  "A conversation with recording artist and The Voice contestant Anthony Evans". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Different, Inspired, Sometimes

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• I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.

  Pete Seeger

  New York, Father, School

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.

  Drake

  Writing, Levels, Want

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

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• Yeah, we try to get the best musicians possible, and Justin [Robinson] is a great musician, man, a great player. You must have been surprised to see him out there, then.

  Common

  Player, Men, Trying

  Source: aalbc.com

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