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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
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There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.
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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.
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There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
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There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it.
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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
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There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.
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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.
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There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.
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There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds of music together. We do pop studio sessions, and we'll also play John Cage and more avant-garde work. We're developing a language of music that comes with a lot of different styles, different kinds of work.
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There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.
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There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.
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