909 private quotes tagged music

“Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.” — Joan Jett

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“And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.” — Joan Jett

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“I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.” — Joan Jett

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“Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.” — Joan Jett

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“Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.” — Lenny Kravitz

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“I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.” — Joan Jett

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“I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.” — Joan Jett

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“The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.” — Bono

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“I know music is subjective.” — Joan Jett

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“Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.” — Stevie Wonder

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“I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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“I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.” — Annie Lennox

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“The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.” — Neil Young

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“All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?” — Neil Young

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“I love to make music and stay grounded.” — Annie Lennox

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“I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.” — Renee Fleming

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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. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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“In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?” — Jamie Foxx

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“Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it.” — Sting

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“I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.” — Maynard James Keenan

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“I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.” — Neil Young

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“Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.” — William Lyon Phelps

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“I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.” — Neil Young

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“Music my rampart, and my only one.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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“They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.” — Charlie Parker

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