Music Is Quotes - Page 28

• Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

  Nat King Cole

  Emotional, Mind, Musician

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• Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Miracle, One Day At A Time, Able

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• I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that its extremely predictable, its a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and theres a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.

  Ken Burns

  Thinking, Rocks, Play

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• I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

  Glen Hansard

  Air, Cynical, Poisoning

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• Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

  Carter Burwell

  Adhesive, Narrative, Film

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• Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

  Robin Gibb

  Machines, Karaoke, Bigs

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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• Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Song, Powerful, Writing

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• What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

  Andrew Bird

  Eye, Profound, Effects

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• Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

  Victoria Wood

  Children, Elements, Should

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• I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

  Gordon Getty

  Yesterday, Century, Newspapers

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• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Writing, Basic Things, One Thing

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• People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Writing, People, Becoming

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• If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

  Jose Bergamin

  Believe, Let It Go, Ears

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• Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.

  Steve Burns

  Acting, Hobbies, Music Is My Life

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• You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

  George Clinton

  Hate, Parent, Rebel

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• When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

  Wes Borland

  Song, Buzz, Way

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• No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it on the same level as food and sex.

  Fredric Lieberman

  Sex, Past, Cooking

  "An Interview with Mickey Hart" by Michael J. Vaughn, www.themontserratreview.com. 1999.

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• Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

  Cameron Crowe

  Song, Powerful, Home

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• And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

  Patrick Carney

  Opportunity, People, Records

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• The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the
  sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.

  Walter Russell

  Love, Spring, Light

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• Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

  George Crumb

  Reflection, Light, Ideas

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• Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

  Guillaume Canet

  Important, Cinema, Important Things

  "‘Little White Lies’ Writer-Director Guillaume Canet on His Personal French Drama and Making the Upcoming ‘Blood Ties’ in the U.S." by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 22, 2012.

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

  Pat Metheny

  Jazz, Your Presence

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• The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Exercise, Variation, Mystery

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