909 private quotes tagged music

“For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.” — David Ogden Stiers

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“Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.” — Scott Weiland

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“Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.” — Miley Cyrus

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“Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.” — Doug Coupland

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“Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.” — Eddie Vedder

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“I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“Music was important. Football was the easy part.” — Zinedine Zidane

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“If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.” — Eddie Van Halen

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“If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.” — Roberto Cavalli

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“I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.” — Neko Case

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“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.” — Ray Charles

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“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

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“Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.” — Billy Joel

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“Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?” — Beth Ditto

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“I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.” — Ice Cube

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“I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.” — Nina Simone

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“It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.” — Tom Petty

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“I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.” — Lady Gaga

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“Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.” — Lady Gaga

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“Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.” — Glenn Hughes

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“I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.” — Lady Gaga

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“I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'” — Lady Gaga

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“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.” — Lady Gaga

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“I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.” — Lady Gaga

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