909 private quotes tagged music

“Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.” — Doug Coupland

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“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.” — W. H. Auden

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“Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.” — Miley Cyrus

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“Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.” — Scott Weiland

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“Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.” — Marilyn Manson

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“What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.” — David Ogden Stiers

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“For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“Music is the best way for me to say I love you.” — Mireille Mathieu

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“I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.” — Katherine Jenkins

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“I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.” — Jerry Garcia

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“Music and the music business are two different things.” — Erykah Badu

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“Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.” — Herbie Hancock

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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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“I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.” — Eric Clapton

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“When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.” — Billy Joel

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“Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.” — Eminem

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“Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” — Roy Ayers

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“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.” — George Jean Nathan

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“Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.” — Lawrence Welk

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“Good music is very close to primitive language.” — Denis Diderot

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“If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.” — Anne Lamott

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“When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.” — Jonathan Davis

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“I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.” — Billy Corgan

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“I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.” — Shaun White

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