Music Is Quotes - Page 16

• The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

  Norman Granz

  Knowing, Hearing, Jazz

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• We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

  Saul Williams

  Different, Different Relationships

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, edition.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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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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• 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 what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.

  Pat Metheny

  Jazz, Your Presence

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• Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

  Ray Charles

  Blank, Chalk, Blackboard

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• Music is love searching for a word.

  Sidney Lanier

  Searching For Love

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• Music is a spiritual thing, you don't play with music. If you play with music you will die young. You see, because when the higher forces give you the gift of music...musicians hip, it must be well used for the gift of humanity.

  Fela Kuti

  Spiritual, Play, Giving

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• For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

  Robert Schumann

  Language, Permit, Converses

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• Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

  Don DeLillo

  World, Way, Dangerous

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Great Jones Street”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

  Gordon Getty

  Understanding

  "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability

  Miranda Lambert

  Strong, Vulnerability

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• Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Reading, Brain, Listening

  Interview with Aaron Burgess, www.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• A lot of artists are used to their music being reused online and have come to accept and embrace it. You have a generation who go on YouTube and remake and remix music online all the time. They remake and upload songs and videos, and then other people remake the remakes; it just keeps going.

  Girl Talk

  Song, Artist, People

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• They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

  Justin Guarini

  Math, Missing, Important

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• However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Country, Thinking, Japan

  Interview with Spence D. with Peer Schneider and Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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• We all have music in us - your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound - and music is supposed to put you in tune with nature.

  Randy Weston

  Sound And Music, Voice, Tunes

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• Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

  Richard Wagner

  Heart, Thinking, Speech

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• Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.

  Ziggy Marley

  Causes, Reggae, Easy

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

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• I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

  John Coltrane

  Thinking, People, Patterns

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• Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.

  Tim Gane

  Simple, Thinking, Way

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• Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

  Eric Clapton

  Confusion, Wipe, Found

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.

  Kanye West

  Medicine, Sometimes, Feels

  Song: Crack_Music_, Album: Late Registration, 2005

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• Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.

  Yann Martel

  Bird, Mind, Answers

  Yann Martel (1993). “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios”, Orlando : Harcourt

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• Music isn't about music, it's about life.

  Herbie Hancock

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