Music Is Quotes - Page 34

• The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

  Jan Hammer

  Passion, Gone, Spontaneity

  Interview with Art Connor, www.tbolin.com. February 7, 2001.

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• Music is the best consolation for a despaired man

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Consolation

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• The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

  Boris Vian

  White, Black, Elements

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• Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

  Matisyahu

  Ideas, Reggae, Reggae Music

  "Babylon calling". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• Music has become really important now. It's helped me to open up more and take a chance on loving people. Music is a good reason to care. It's just a vehicle though. It's a way to try and give somebody something that you feel. If trying the best I can isn't good enough, I'll just have to try harder next time...it's all I can do. If I do the best I can, then at least I did the best I could in this life The way I like to look at it is....if that's the last time /I ever got to play, I'd better give it everything I've got.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play, People, Giving

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• Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

  Ben Mink

  Country, Art, Moving

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• Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

  Martin Freeman

  Creativity, Clothes, People

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

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• Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.

  Robert Plant

  Lonely, Communication, Mean

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• I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Invisible, Form

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

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• I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

  Win Butler

  Thinking, Rocks, Media

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• I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

  Maya Beiser

  Creativity, Want, Possibility

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• I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling.

  Terrance Hayes

  Thinking, People, Expectations

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• The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

  Virgil Thomson

  Writing, Simple, Wish

  Quoted in Machlis Introduction to Contemporary Music (1963).

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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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• I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

  David Guetta

  Style, Albums

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?

  Gotye

  Thinking, Discovery, Brain

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• Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

  James Huneker

  Music, Piano, Brandy

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• The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

  Florence Welch

  Way, Exorcism, Demon

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• It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

  Alison Moyet

  Our Generation, People, Interesting

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• Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Talking, Feelings, Language

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• Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

  John Barbirolli

  Music, Three, Raspberries

  Of modern music. Quoted in M Kennedy Barbirolli, Conductor Laureate (1971).

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• Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

  Waylon Jennings

  Country, Guitar, Feelings

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• We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

  Abbey Lincoln

  Memories, Hair, Skins

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• Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

  Max Picard

  Dream, Silence, Sound

  Max Picard (1963). “Man and Language”

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• It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

  Gordon Waller

  Great Times

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