Music Quotes - Page 27

• Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

  Willie Nelson

  Love, Country, Song

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.99, Penguin

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• Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

  Armin van Buuren

  Style, Trance, Prisoner

  Twitter post from Apr 27, 2011

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• When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

  Don McLean

  Funny, Song, Work

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• Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

  Alvin Ailey

  Dance, Teaching, Joy

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• The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s
  wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written.
  Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

  Marty Neumeier

  Past, Play, Creating

  Marty Neumeier (2009). “The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation”, p.27, Peachpit Press

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• A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

  Talib Kweli

  Inspirational, Success, Artist

  FaceBook post by Talib Kweli from Apr 23, 2012

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• Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

  Hedi Slimane

  Life, Fashion, Song

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• I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.

  Dolly Parton

  Love, Song, Thinking

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• Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

  Paul Weller

  Frustration, Guitar, Frustrated

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• Art is my God, Music is my religion.

  Otep Shamaya

  God, Art, Religion

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• A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Rapper, Thinking, Talking

  "Q & A: Afrika Bambaataa Spins Hip-Hop Knowledge". Q&A with Simon McCormack, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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• Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

  Chet Atkins

  Funny, Guitar, Years

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

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• I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

  Dave Gahan

  Love, Song, Space

  "Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan gets spiritual". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work together as a team while, at the same time, giving them the space to express their individuality. It's a very important art form and can be used as a model for different cultures to work together.

  Marcus Miller

  Beautiful, Teamwork, Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

  Carlos Gavito

  Dance, Thinking, Feelings

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• I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

  Keith Jarrett

  School, Player, Bmw

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• Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

  Tony Iommi

  Three, Band, Week

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• I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.

  Bernard Herrmann

  Inspirational, Character, Poetry

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• Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

  Tom Morello

  Funny, Two, Political

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• If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

  Nick Drake

  Song, Would Be, Lines

  Song: Hazey Jane II, Album: Bryter Layter

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• It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

  Elvin Jones

  Beautiful, Honesty, Style

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• You've got to care about the music...You'd better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money. And you'd sure better not be doing it because it's a way to make a living, 'cause that ain't always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.

  Waylon Jennings

  Money, Believe, Mean

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• Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

  Janis Joplin

  Love, Emotional, Loving Someone

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• I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

  Zachary Levi

  Dance, Song, Hate

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• Music is the universal language.

  Swizz Beatz

  Art, Hip Hop, African American

  "10 questions for 'Far East Movement'". Rap-Up Interview, www.rap-up.com. October 12, 2010.

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