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• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

  Dan Fogelberg

  Real, Thinking, Made

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• Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!

  R. Murray Schafer

  Lying, Musician, Sound

  R. Murray Schafer (1977). “The Tuning of the World”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it’s my religion. There’s the idea that you can’t truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless you’ve hurt yourself? I’m still figuring out who I am, but I know that I’m not who I was.

  Brendon Urie

  Hurt, Sadness, Who I Am

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• Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

  Jay Park

  Artist, Thinking, Drawing

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• Eric Peters' music is at the top of what gets played around my house, in my car and while I am running.  I am a big fan.  He writes incredibly honest and poetic lyrics coupled with memorable pop melodies and I can think of no better combination.

  Jill Phillips

  Running, Memorable, Writing

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• The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

  Miles Davis

  Play, Way, Helping

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• Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy.

  Berenice Bejo

  Two, Ipods, Giving

  "‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.

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• I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

  Ansel Elgort

  Writing, World, Sometimes

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• My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

  Anna Kamienska

  Silence, Speech, Layers

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• Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

  Alban Berg

  Reflection, Feelings, Perception

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• From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Ocean, Struggle

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• Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

  George Szell

  Heart, Thinking, Feelings

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• Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

  Roy Ayers

  Artist, Records, Contracts

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• The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.

  John Michael Talbot

  Silence, Style, Age

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• I want to buy my mom a house; I want my family to never have to worry about anything. And I just want to have an amazing career in music, because I love to do it.

  Ashthon Jones

  Mom, Careers, Worry

  Interview with reporters during a media conference call, idol.blogs.pressdemocrat.com. March 11, 2011.

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• I'm willing to go wherever with this because music is everything to me. This is my world and how I see it. My music speaks for me in a way that's relatable and truthful.

  Luke James

  World, Way, Truthful

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• I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

  Jane Siberry

  Rocks, Watches, Acoustic Music

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• Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important as meaning. In fact, music can drive home the meaning of words.

  Constance Hale

  Home, Adventure, News Stories

  "Writing for the ear" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. June 13, 2012.

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• I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music.

  Ziggy Marley

  Eye, Thinking, Dna

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• To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

  Dave Haywood

  Lines, Bottom, Bottom Line

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• I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of my kid's mouth. That is the way I look at it. It's inherently wrong. It's stealing.

  Art Alexakis

  Kids, Thinking, Looks

  "Does Napster Allow Theft on a Grand Scale or Just Innocent Swapping?". "Crossfire" with Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2001.

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• Jonas' music is inspiring, energizing, and spiritually uplifting. A brilliant songwriter, he writes music that reaches deep into the soul and awakens the best and highest in all of us. And Jonas delivers his songs with a power, joy, and grace that last long after the last note is played. The world needs this music!

  Marci Shimoff

  Uplifting, Song, Writing

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• I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

  Simon Van Booy

  Thinking, Faces, Language

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.15, Oneworld Publications

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• The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

  Satyajit Ray

  Surfing, Use, These Days

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I once said to a boy, ‘You’re a really good kisser,’ and he said, ‘You’re only as good as the person you’re kissing.' I think it’s the same with the music. If someone [says], ‘Your music is really provocative,’ I’m only as provocative as the person that’s listening to it.

  FKA twigs

  Kissing, Boys, Thinking

  "FKA Twigs Is a Woman of Mystery -- And She Likes It That Way" by Devon Maloney, www.billboard.com. August 18, 2014.

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