909 private quotes tagged music

“It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.” — David Byrne

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“Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.” — Joan Jett

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“So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.” — Smokey Robinson

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“It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.” — Jonathan Davis

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“Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.” — Alexander McQueen

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“Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.” — Gerard Way

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“To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.” — Axel Munthe

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“I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.” — Beth Ditto

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“A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.” — W. H. Auden

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“But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.” — Charles Ives

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“Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.” — Brian Molko

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“There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.” — Jim Davis

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“I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.” — Ani DiFranco

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“Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.” — Louis Armstrong

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“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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“I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.” — Maynard James Keenan

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“Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'” — Elvis Presley

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“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.” — Truman Capote

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“Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.” — Cameron Crowe

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“Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“Some music really does suck!” — Henry Rollins

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“Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.” — Eddie Van Halen

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“Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.” — Keith Richards

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“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.” — Honore de Balzac

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