909 private quotes tagged music

“Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.” — Annie Lennox

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“My aim is just to make good music every single time.” — Lil Wayne

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“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” — W. H. Auden

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“It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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“I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.” — Jack Black

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“I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?” — Peter Tosh

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“Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.” — George Jones

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“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.” — Zhuangzi

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“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.” — Marcel Marceau

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“Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.” — Hector Berlioz

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“There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.” — George Lucas

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“The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.” — Havelock Ellis

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“I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.” — Annie Lennox

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“All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?” — Willie Nelson

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“I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.” — Kesha

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“Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.” — Jeff Bridges

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“I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.” — Taylor Swift

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“What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.” — Gertrude Stein

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“I am trying to walk a tightrope trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.” — David Guetta

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“Please write music like Wagner, only louder.” — Samuel Goldwyn

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“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.” — Elvis Presley

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“Music is like a huge release of tension.” — James Taylor

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“Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.” — Ani DiFranco

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