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"1041 Music Quotes

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.

Actually America Came Early
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

Because Bound Buddy Computer
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English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

Armstrong Banjo English Ind
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When a song isn’t ordinary, even babes are intentional about WORSHIP.

Song Ordinary Babes Intentional
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When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.

I die Intend Take My music
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When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

Asked Explaining Guitar How
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I write my songs because I've lived them.

Because I Write Lived Songs
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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

Bug Buttons Death Going
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

About Band Disagree Music
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

Music Neck Rock Roll
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If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Any Blues Form Guitar
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Songwriting's a weird game.

Game Songwriting Weird Music
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The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

Band Basically Beatles Vocal
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

BBC Been Blues Deliverance
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Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

Alone Another Blues Digital
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Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.

Become Fascinates Fell Game
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I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

Constantly Free Music Out
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I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

Believe Make Music People
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I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

Always Beginning Certain Even
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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

True music Repeat Thought Inspirations
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I like to think of music as an emotional science.

I like Music Emotional science
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Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

Look Piano Black notes Figure out
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Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.

Music Vibration Unquestionably Physical reaction
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I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.
Frequently Hear music Noise
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Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

Writing music Inspiration Hard work
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Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come.

Entire annual Songs Inspiration
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When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

Normal mood Music My fingers
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People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

Act Culture Justifies Kids
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As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.
Ears Grab How I Can
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You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

Album Crazy Feel Found
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Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally.
Make Mentally Music Reflects
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I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

Being Crazy Energy Get
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It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

Come Felt Out True
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What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Anyway Communicate Communication Form
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Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

Album Being Emotion Even
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The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.
Album Best Contains Ever
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Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

Because Better Great Just
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The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

Adult Contemporary Contemporary Music Jazz
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I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

Charlie Charlie Parker Create Fine
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I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

Decide Everybody Fine I Think
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I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Anyway Communicate Communication Form
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I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.

About Ahead Always Anticipate
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I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

Body Enough Express Feels
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I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

Classical Classical Music Jazz Listen
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Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.

Any Beauty Being Both
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I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

Actually Amazed Anything Because
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If you go to Tiananmen Square, or go to any public area in China, you will hear my music at some point.

Any Area China Go
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Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

Because Complex Generally How
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There are guitars everywhere around all of our houses. Pianos. Guitars. It's kind of just in our blood. It's in our nature.

Around Blood Everywhere Guitars
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When you go out on stage and you greet the crowd, there's nothing like it.
Crowd Go Greet Like
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