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"1041 Music Quotes

For me, to turn people on to new music, on to things that are going on in the world, is important.

Going Important Me Music
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I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

Addicted Behind Believe Concept
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Beautiful Divine Heart Music
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I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

All Your Life Am Life Man
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Also Composers Everyone Everywhere
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Music will save the world.

Music Save Will World
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Down Heart Melody Never
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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

Brand Dream Rock Rock-N-Roll
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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

Basic Because Came Chords
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Big Blues Delta Easy
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As a recording artist/music minister, you need visa to travel places but your voice does not need a visa.. So sing the right message! Your music can get to places you may never go to.

Recording artist Visa Travel places Music
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I reach out to a larger audience with the message of Christ in my music.
Reach out Audience Message Christ
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My music is not targeted at people, my target is the heart of God.

My music People Target Heart of God
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The same way you can listen to a song, and be inspired and lifted. You can listen to another and be depressed/defiled…

Same way Listen Inspired Depressed
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But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

Decline Ever Listened Other
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I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

Cry Editorial Good GoodSong
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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

Guitar Half Instrument Life
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Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.

Music Satan Most attractive Soul
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When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.

Music Devotion Prayer Young people
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Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

Every act Justice Mercy Benevolence
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Come Go Me More
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Lyricists play with words.
Play Words Lyricist
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I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

Beatle Began Generation Kids
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I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

Audition Got Group Knew
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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

Cuz Did Had Just
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

Beat Elvis Got Heard
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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
Always Loved Putting Songs
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

How Instrument Practiced Singer
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My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

Bless Dad Had Him
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Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
Always Back Dad Looking
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I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

Always Appreciate Bad Could
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Approach Changed IPod Music
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Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

Artists Been Choreography Idol
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
Fashion Life Music Part
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Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year.

Next Own Package Records
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I'm working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy.

CD Crazy Dancing Like
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Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

Better Come Get How
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I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
Garden Inspiration Large Music
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I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

About Album Cares Just
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The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Certainly Instruments Lower Most
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I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?

Also Born First Flower
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I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me.

Aunt Because Encouraged Family
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A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.
Good GoodRecord Hit Record
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I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.

Around Body Change Changed
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I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.

About Change Colors Emotional
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Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.

Cathartic Condition Genuinely Happy
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Music has influenced everything from my tattooing to how I talk to how I walk, I guess. I was classically trained in piano since I was 6. Then in my teens, my older sister introduced me to Metallica. It was all over. I had a mohawk soon after that.

After Everything Guess Had
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Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

About Cheap Get His
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

Consider music Graveyards
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Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

Bob Did Dylan First
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