909 private quotes tagged music

“I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.” — Buddy Guy

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“I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.” — Gary Cherone

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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.” — Keith Richards

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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” — Benjamin Britten

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“Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.” — Billy Joel

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“Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.” — Brandon Boyd

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“I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.” — Kid Rock

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“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.” — Bob Dylan

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“My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.” — Bob Marley

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“My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.” — Bob Marley

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“Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.” — Toru Takemitsu

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“Music inflames temperament.” — Jim Morrison

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“Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.” — Charlie Byrd

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“Music is a performance and needs the audience.” — Michael Tippett

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“Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.” — Gary Wright

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“Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.” — Eminem

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“It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.” — Bruce Beresford

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“Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.” — Judith Viorst

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“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.” — Bob Dylan

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“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.” — Abraham Maslow

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“You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.” — Bob Dylan

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“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.” — Eminem

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“I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.” — Keith Richards

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