Music Quotes - Page 36

• Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

  Cab Calloway

  Clubs, Cotton, Jazz

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• Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

  Yogi Berra

  Simple, Jazz, Complicated

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• There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

  Robert Wyatt

  Ideas, Fields, Brilliant Ideas

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• I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

  Zakk Wylde

  Football, Playing Music

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• I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

  Thom Yorke

  Darkness, Trash, Pops

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

  Thom Yorke

  Art, Writing, Mean

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

  Neil Young

  Mistake, Made, Labeling

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• I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

  Edward Victor Appleton

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Rocks, Views, Albums

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• Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

  Dave Brubeck

  Skin Color, Soul, Mind

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• My mother wanted me to take piano lessons, but I never wanted to, because that is something you have to learn, like you have to learn to type, and to me, that has nothing to do with music.

  Ryo Kawasaki

  Mother, Piano, Lessons

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• When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Thinking, People, Suing

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• Music is the soul of language.

  Max Heindel

  Positive, Spiritual, Song

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• If it's not a hit, switch.

  Derek Sivers

  Powerful, Promoting, Ifs

  Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.15, Penguin

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• Don't tell people you are broke. Guilting fans into buying your music never works.

  Ari Herstand

  Powerful, People, Fans

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• To help with knowing if you're good or not, you need a mentor.

  Alex Day

  Powerful, Knowing, Mentor

  "How A YouTube Sensation Beat Justin Timberlake And The Music Industry". Interview with James Altucher, techcrunch.com. March 18, 2013.

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• It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Powerful, Play, Privilege

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• I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

  Tom Stoppard

  Mean, Two, Twenties

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I intend to put them on the charts.

  MC Hammer

  "Mc Hammer To Return With Autobiography" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. August 1, 2001.

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• I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

  Hermann Hesse

  Thinking, Moral, Found

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• How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Enemy, Sound

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

  B. B. King

  Mother, Source, American Music

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• Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sheep, Soul

  "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works".

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