Quotes 461 till 480 of 620.
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The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.
In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996) -
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.
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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
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The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
Birdsong (2010) 9 -
The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.
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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.
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The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
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The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
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The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.
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The man that hath no music in himself; nor is not move with concord of sweet sounds; is fit for treasons stratagems, and spoils.
The merchant of Venice (1597) -
The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie - it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.
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The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
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The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.
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The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.
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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
Rolling Stone interview (2005) -
The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.
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