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Saul Williams on music
Author: Saul Williams“I think it’s a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn’t seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that’s ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.” -Saul Williams
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Jessica Sanchez on music
Author: Jessica Sanchez“My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.” -Jessica Sanchez
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Quincy Jones on music
Author: Quincy Jones“If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.” -Quincy Jones
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Martina McBride on music
Author: Martina McBride“It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.” -Martina McBride
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Gabriel Marcel on music
Author: Gabriel Marcel“But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.” -Gabriel Marcel
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Joaquin Phoenix on music
Author: Joaquin Phoenix“I didn’t know much about him, and I wasn’t a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn’t know a lot about him.” -Joaquin Phoenix
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Philip Seymour Hoffman on music
Author: Philip Seymour Hoffman“I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.” -Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Maurice Sendak on music
Author: Maurice Sendak“There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.” -Maurice Sendak
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Miriam Makeba on music
Author: Miriam Makeba“It’s a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I don’t see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.” -Miriam Makeba
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Claude Debussy on music
Author: Claude Debussy“I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.” -Claude Debussy
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Paula Cole on music
Author: Paula Cole“For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.” -Paula Cole
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Miranda Lambert on music
Author: Miranda Lambert“Country music has always sort of been country music.” -Miranda Lambert
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Kenny Chesney on music
Author: Kenny Chesney“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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Diablo Cody on music
Author: Diablo Cody“Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It’s kind of like the indie music scene.” -Diablo Cody
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Ani DiFranco on music
Author: Ani DiFranco“Pop stardom is not very compelling. I’m much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there’s no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There’s no, like, ‘I’ll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.’” -Ani DiFranco
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John James Audubon on music
Author: John James Audubon“Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.” -John James Audubon
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Amy Winehouse on music
Author: Amy Winehouse“I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.” -Amy Winehouse
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Jonathan Kozol on music
Author: Jonathan Kozol“But for the children of the poorest people we’re stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We’re not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.” -Jonathan Kozol
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Chuck Mangione on music
Author: Chuck Mangione“Most recently we’ve been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren’t too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott’s, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.” -Chuck Mangione
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Joey Ramone on music
Author: Joey Ramone“To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.” -Joey Ramone
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Eddie Izzard on music
Author: Eddie Izzard“Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They’re just pretty people singing music written by others.” -Eddie Izzard
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Bill Monroe on music
Author: Bill Monroe“Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.” -Bill Monroe
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David Guetta on music
Author: David Guetta“If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn’t make me happy. That’s why I’m working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.” -David Guetta
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Igor Stravinsky on music
Author: Igor Stravinsky“The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.” -Igor Stravinsky