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" Quotes and Sayings About music

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Animals Best Children Music
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Appreciation General Instead Love
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

Always Hear Like Music
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Bar Felt Life Music
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Any Becoming Ending Endless
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

Careers Classic Conductor Conductors
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Art Conscience Dark Deep
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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Almost Beat Best Best Way
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Biased First Generate Get
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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
Agree Ear Fails Heart
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To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.

Art Bear Cannot Magnificent
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I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

Art ArtForm Bad Changed
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A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

Career Extend Fresh Keep
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

After Back Because Better
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I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Believe Book Certain CertainThings
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I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.
Always Felt Like Musician
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

Australian Greatest GreatestThing Happened
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My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

Balm Beauty Intended Kind
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If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

About Although Appeared Magic
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I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.
Brother Children Clean Cursing
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People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

About Always Been Experimenting
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Music makes everything look beautiful - even sadness, even pain.

Music Look Beautiful Sadness
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It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music.
Any English Kind Listen
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Men use music and football to fill up holes in their lives.

Fill Football Holes Lives
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There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece of music that I want to somehow convert into prose, as a creative inspiration.

Convert Could Creative Day
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The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

Always Career Learn Matter
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I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music.

Account Back Date Discover
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I get to wake up every day and create music. And even when it's a tough moment as far as career ups and downs, it's always something you're passionate about, and it's a beautiful way to spend your life.

About Always Beautiful Career
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My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.

Am Band Big Christian
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I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

Actually Computers Good Know
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I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.

Art Career Entertainer Great
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I think that dating other musicians can be complicated at times. Especially when they think highly of themselves.

Complicated Dating Highly Musicians
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I have really musical parents, and my dad was always encouraging, but the desire to get onstage and perform really did come from me. I'd never push my future children.

Always Children Come Dad
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With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Nature Sound Music
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I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

Anything Before Labeled Labeling
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Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music.. some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?

Addicted Gigantic Small work Poem
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I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

About Battle Danger Everything
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I just do what I do. I like to make music.

Just Like Make Music
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My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Anything Jazz Me Music
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The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

Bind First Generation Music
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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
About Music No Point Point
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Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

Annoying Business Commitments Music
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Live music is better.
Better Live LiveMusic Music
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Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

Back Closed Commercial Crap
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

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I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

Alone Award Knew Musical
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I love recording music.
I Love Love Music Recording
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I listen to music constantly while writing.

Constantly Listen Music While
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One thing I've always loved doing is hanging out and talking music with other artists.

Always Artists Doing Hanging
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I always knew that I would make a success of music, that I would be a celebrity; so I just trained myself on how I was going to manage success when it eventually comes.

Success Music Celebrity Knew
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