909 private quotes tagged music

“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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“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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“I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.” — Justin Bieber

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“Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.” — Noel Coward

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“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.” — Louis Armstrong

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“Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.” — Paul McCartney

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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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“It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.” — Paul McCartney

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“I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.” — Robert Plant

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“Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.” — Katherine Jenkins

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“The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.” — David Bowie

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“When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.” — Dave Grohl

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“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.” — George Byron

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“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.” — William Wordsworth

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“If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.” — James Hetfield

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“Music is the melody whose text is the world.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.” — Mencius

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“I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.” — Lil Wayne

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“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.” — Tom Stoppard

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“Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.” — Kenny Chesney

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“Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.” — Kenny G

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