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"1041 Music Quotes

It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.

People Way Repulsive Hear
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I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do.

Sold Show Drips EBay
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Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

Musicians Play Pay Should
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I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

War Song Stopped Music
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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing.

Don't Write Songs About
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

If Were Writer Singer
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As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

Limited Appreciation Intensed Scope
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Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

Universal Respected Genres Universal
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In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

Group Ground Broken Stopped
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As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

Sorry Missing Analog Playback
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There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.

Point Independent Real View
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Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

Music Cure What Live
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I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

Conversations Distractions Unwanted Gravitate
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If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

Radically Living Results Law
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I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

Independent Music Good Path
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It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

Inspiring Classmate Name Medicating
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Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.
Life Keep Having Young
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My music is typically hip-hop, but with a contemporary twist. I always infuse traditional Nigerian sounds and modernize them.

Music Twist Infuse Sound
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When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

Constantly Rap Train Album
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No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn’t glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It’s all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

People Image Emotion Secrets
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There are a lot of things that we need to constantly talk about so that somehow there should be a recognition of this… People feel that the Fela Kuti’s spirit needs to come back.

People Constantly Talk Feel
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With my music, I create change…I am using my music as a weapon
Create Weapon Music Using
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Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life.

Music Future Weapon Life
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Music is a spiritual thing, you don't play with music. If you play with music you will die young. You see, because when the higher forces give you the gift of music...musicians hip, it must be well used for the gift of humanity.

Humanity Gift Forces Young
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You cannot sing African music in proper English
Sing Music Africa Proper
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The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community.

Big Sound Music Community
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The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Everything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. – But it takes away from the reason we do it.

Essence Same Formula Reason
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Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.

Performance Thing Moment Capture
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I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.

Lyrics Tune Interpret I
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When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.

Music Happy Lyrics Enjoy
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It’s not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.

Transparent Emotions Music Heavy
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What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
Better Voice Audience Energy
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In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

Hate Write Tragic Person
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Fame Light Solid Swollen
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Music Boring Production Dates
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Song Music Love Anything
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A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

Bad Come Day Feel
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Desert Journey Life Life Is A Journey
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When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.

Beach Book Came Couple
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The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Delinquent Earth Every Face
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For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.

Across Best Business Composer
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Music was important. Football was the easy part.

Easy Football Important Music
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Without music, life would be a mistake.

Life Mistake Music Without
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I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.

Audience Back Become Culture
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

Art Break Bringing Cultural
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Always Basically Because Good
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Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
Acting Because Came Coach
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I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

Air Come Fell Felt
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

Always Effect Happy Hope
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There are lots of things that people can do in music industry. One of the challenges that we have in the industry is actually human resources. We are looking for people that can handle different things.

Things Handle People One
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