New Music Quotes

• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Unrequited Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Lying

  'Arcades' (1645) l. 68

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• Not that there's anything wrong with that.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Memorable, Kramer, Thirsty

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• There is music in all things, if men had ears.

  Lord Byron

  Music, Men, Ears

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.316, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I was born with music inside me

  Ray Charles

  Musical Life, Inspirational Music, Musician

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Appreciation, Teacher

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

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• Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

  William Congreve

  Inspirational, Music, Rocks

  1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc.1.

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Music, Angel

  Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”

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• For me, changing the sound and listening to new music - that's just so fun. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You're never going to please everybody. I feel that at the end of the day, I should make what I want to make since somebody is going to hate it and somebody is going to love it too. I can't control that.

  Jim James

  Fun, Hate, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear what the kids are listening to, or what's the feel of Middle America, cause that's what the mall is.

  Ester Dean

  Kids, America, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• I feel like you should be confident in whatever you do, and a lot of my new music [that's coming out] I want people to judge more so than the music I've put out recently, because I feel like it's really changed a lot.

  Big Sean

  Judging, People, Want

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Past, Fans, Want

  "The third act of Steven Van Zandt" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.

  Hayley Williams

  Book, Listening, My Friends

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• Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride.

  Chrisette Michele

  Fun, Blessed, People

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• So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Music, Thinking, Guitar

  "Lee Ann Womack Hits Road With Toby Keith". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2005.

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• The only person who really impressed me with making new music is Cudi. Everyone else seems to be jumping on the same music, the producer-made stuff, but the one person that's made new music to me is Cudi.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Jumping, Stuff, Made

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• I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.

  Melanie Brown

  Home, Past, Excited

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.

  Rivers Cuomo

  Fighting, Studios, Activity

  "Rivers Cuomo". Interview with The A.V. Club, music.avclub.com. September 14, 2010.

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• I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

  Fergie

  Notebook, Ideas, Perfect

  "Fergie teases 'notebooks full of ideas' for new music" by Christina Garibaldi, www.mtv.com. September 14, 2012.

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• You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

  Sebastian Bach

  Way, Looks

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• New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

  Duke Ellington

  Hell, Stravinsky

  1970 Quoted in D Jewell Duke (1977).

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• I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it.

  Hoodie Allen

  Want, Kind, Music Is

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• When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

  Bela Fleck

  Stress, Thinking, Play

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