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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
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The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.
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The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round.
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The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.
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The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.
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The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
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The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
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The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.
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The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, '106 & Park,' music, and other things to fall back on.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.
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The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.
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