Music Quotes - Page 37

• You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

  David Coverdale

  Sister, Song, Cousin

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• I would. I'm just too, I'm kind of, a pussy, I guess. That's the problem. But, no, I'd love to. I think everybody should do open mics. I think it's very healthy for your soul. So yeah, I'd love to do it again, but I don't know. It's like I'm cutting a record if I do open mic now, so, I don't know.

  Robert Pattinson

  Cutting, Thinking, Healthy

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• I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three.

  Robert Pattinson

  Piano, Three, Has Beens

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

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• If we hold on together
  I know our dreams will never die
  Dreams see us through to forever
  Where clouds roll by
  For you and I

  Diana Ross

  Dream, Clouds, Forever

  Song: If we hold on together

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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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• I hope you don't mind,
  I hope you don't mind,
  that I put into words,
  how wonderful life is,
  now you're in the world.

  Elton John

  Mind, World, Life Is

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• I'm thankful
  For the blessing
  And the lessons that I've learned with you
  By my side

  Kelly Clarkson

  Blessing, Lessons, Sides

  Song: Thankful, Album: Thankful

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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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• 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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• People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

  Roger McNamee

  Powerful, People, Labels

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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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• If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

  Joan Baez

  Meaningful, Song, Jazz

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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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• Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

  Ralph Ellison

  Rocks, Expression, Church

  "Some Questions and Some Answers", 1958.

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• I like the girls to match the upholstery of the car.

  Charlie Barnet

  Girl, Car, Upholstery

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

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• I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

  George Benson

  Cat, Jazz, Pleasure

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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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• 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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• We're here to have a ball.

  Art Blakey

  Balls, Jazz

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• I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.

  Aaliyah

  Beautiful, Song, Blow

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• If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

  Louis Armstrong

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Jazz

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• Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

  Ray Brown

  Jazz, Feels

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