Quotes with music

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  • Hugh Reginald Haweis Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.
    Hugh Reginald Haweis
    English cleric and writer (1838 - 1901)
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  • Britney Spears Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Elvis Costello Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
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  • Bootsy Collins Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Brad Delson Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot You are the music while the music lasts.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Billie Holiday You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Luciano Pavarotti You don't need any brains to listen to music.
    Luciano Pavarotti
    Italian opera singer (1935 - 2007)
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  • Billy Corgan You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Barry McGuire You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Benny Green You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Bob Mould You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.
    Bob Mould
    American musician (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Frank Zappa Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Denis Diderot Good music is very close to primitive language.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Burning Spear Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Ludwig Van Beethoven Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
    Ludwig Van Beethoven
    German composer (1770 - 1827)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Denis Diderot When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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