Music Quotes
- All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
- Brendan Behan
- An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
- Quentin Crisp
- An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
- Peter Utley
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- If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what’s around them.
- Afrika Bambaataa
- The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there’s hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there’s hip hop in the food, soul food, there’s hip hop in the cars.
- Vanessa Brown
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- I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.
- Charlie Hunnam
- As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.
- Kool Moe Dee
- For us to keep claiming this isn’t Hip Hop and that isn’t Hip Hop doesn’t make sense to me.
- Grandmaster Flash
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When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn’t understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.
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Matthew Sweet
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I don’t think you need a record deal to write songs. You don’t need any other reason than you want to do it. It’s a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.
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Andy Taylor
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I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you’re playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.
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Mick Taylor
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When I was studying… there weren’t any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
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Nina Simone
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I think one of the best things you can do, no matter what you play, is to take up piano. Music is based on chord changes and harmonies, and you can get ‘em more out of an instrument like piano, where you can hear all the notes at once.
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John Haley Sims
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It’s part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There’s so much hurt in this world and… music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.
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Ricky Skaggs
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No, but way before that, I’ve been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
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Christopher Walken
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it’s still coming to computer science.
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Larry Wall
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I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the ‘honesty’ of the story.
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Chris Ware
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I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
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Anthony Braxton
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
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Benjamin Britten
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While I’m playing baseball, I’m still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I’m sure I’ll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I’ll be thinking of music then.
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Garth Brooks
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I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.
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Robert Moog
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What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I’ve done.
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Robert Moog
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Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it’s not funny.
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Julianne Moore
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