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" Quotes and Sayings About music

It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.'

Farewell Industry Just Kind
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What's scummy about the music industry is that everybody loves you when you're dead.

About Dead Everybody Industry
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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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It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.

Another Camera Expression Form
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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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Music will save the world.

Music Save Will World
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In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
Beauty God Kindness Love
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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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90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

Art Dance Drive Every
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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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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
Academia Father Good His
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The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

African American Around Bad
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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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You don't have to be inspired by comedians. You have to be inspired by things that are real, whether it's music, comedy...a movie - that should inspire you.

Comedy Comedians Inspired Real
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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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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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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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A lot of people say, 'What's the worst part about being an actor?' And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

About Actor Being Lot
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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Art Expression Forms Further
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Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

Kind Admire Field Performer
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Approach Changed IPod Music
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
Fashion Life Music Part
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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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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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Was not a breakup, you know - is just going three different ways and sending the music in three different directions. Was just that my inspiration was growing, and my cup filled and runneth over... One man grow mango, another grow pear.

Another Breakup Cup Different
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One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Appeals Artist Being Enables
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I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

Accept Another Artist Every
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You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man is as close, probably, as you get.

Burning Close Films Get
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What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.

Bunch Get Good Happen
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There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.

Food IThink Movement Music
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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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When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.

Ahead Business Did Doing
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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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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

Anyone Anyone Else Branches Breathe
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

Consider music Graveyards
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My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.

Future plans Hazy Experience Cartooning
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Always Back Because Character
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Accompany Any Dramatic Itself
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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

Alive Angles Come Create
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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Deaf Hearing Helped Invent
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