909 private quotes tagged music

“Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.” — Peter Tork

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“I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.” — Sting

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“We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.” — Billy Joel

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“I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.” — Anthony Hopkins

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“Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.” — Maynard James Keenan

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“Live music is better.” — Neil Young

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“I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.” — Billy Joel

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“When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.” — Billy Joel

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“I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.” — Billy Joel

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“The thing about my music is, there really is no point.” — Neil Young

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“I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.” — David Duchovny

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“It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.” — Eric Clapton

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“Soul music is timeless.” — Alicia Keys

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“Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.” — Maynard James Keenan

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“I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.” — Axl Rose

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“One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.” — Lawrence Welk

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“There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.” — Jimmy Buffett

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“I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.” — John Stamos

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“Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.” — Phil Collins

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“When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.” — E. W. Howe

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“What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.” — Pete Townshend

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“The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.” — Pete Townshend

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“Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.” — Jonathan Cain

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“I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.” — Beth Ditto

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“Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.” — Eddie Izzard

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