909 private quotes tagged music

“Music is the melody whose text is the world.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.” — Keith Richards

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“What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.” — George Harrison

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“Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.” — Chris Rock

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“I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!” — Taylor Swift

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“My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.” — Clint Eastwood

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“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.” — Ezra Pound

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“I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?” — Dave Grohl

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“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.” — Leopold Stokowski

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“Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.” — Katherine Jenkins

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“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.” — Lawrence Durrell

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“I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.” — William Wordsworth

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“For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.” — Taylor Swift

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“I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.” — April Winchell

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“Music fathoms the sky.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.” — Layne Staley

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“I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.” — Jonathan Davis

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“I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot.” — Manuel Puig

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“Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.” — Bill Hicks

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“I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.” — Lil Wayne

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“Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.” — Lewis Thomas

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“Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.” — Kenny Chesney

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“What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.” — Kenny G

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