909 private quotes tagged music

“Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.” — Ville Valo

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“That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.” — Jay-Z

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“I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too just different than mine.” — Beth Ditto

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“I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.” — Kesha

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“For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.” — Norah Jones

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“I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.” — Steven Patrick Morrissey

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“Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.” — Bill Monroe

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“Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.” — Wolfman Jack

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“I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'” — Pete Townshend

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“My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.” — Paul Simon

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“The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.” — Thomas Beecham

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“Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.” — John Armstrong

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“I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.” — Adam Lambert

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“The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.” — Talib Kweli

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“What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.” — Pete Townshend

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“I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.” — Yoko Ono

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“Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.” — Beth Ditto

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“My music is fun, kind of cheeky.” — Kesha

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“I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.” — Michael Tippett

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“I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.” — Lauryn Hill

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“It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'” — Beth Ditto

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“I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.” — Travis Barker

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“Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.” — Chuck Mangione

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“If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.” — David Guetta

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“There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.” — Maurice Sendak

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