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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Author: David Byrne
Quote #504510

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all ove

Author: Camille Paglia
Quote #504243

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it'

Author: Frank Iero
Quote #504163

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out

Author: Jay London
Quote #504108

I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves

Author: Eric Church
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The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer

Author: Travis Scott
Quote #503842

My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.

Author: Post Malone
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I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he

Author: Tory Lanez
Quote #503825

I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Ve

Author: King Tuff
Quote #503807

One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, a

Author: China Anne McClain
Quote #503623

I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these thi

Author: Kathleen Battle
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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about

Author: Serj Tankian
Quote #503411

I love my complexion, but like so many of us, in the early years at primary school, I grew up thinki

Author: Laura Mvula
Quote #503067

My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playli

Author: Hannah Ware
Quote #502971

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into batt

Author: Heinrich Heine
Quote #502960

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fr

Author: Ellie Kemper
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Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fr

Author: Ellie Kemper
Quote #502858

I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invi

Author: Ellie Goulding
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I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I

Author: Jens Lekman
Quote #502677

I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and Eng

Author: Andy Gibb
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I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music

Author: Melanie Brown
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I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself i

Author: Alexis Korner
Quote #502325

In high school - that's when I first fell in love with his music and his voice. 'Blonde on Blonde' a

Author: Todd Haynes
Quote #502176

There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal

Author: Daniel Ek
Quote #502167

There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illeg

Author: Daniel Ek
Quote #501964

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thi

Author: Ice Cube
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Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks abo

Author: Ziggy Marley
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Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influen

Author: Kim Harrison
Quote #501198

I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, w

Author: Brian Eno
Quote #500983

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing of

Author: John Fogerty
Quote #500906

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time

Author: Jeff Buckley
Quote #500780

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bar

Author: Jason Robert Brown
Quote #500382

For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a f

Author: Garrett Hedlund
Quote #500373

A 'Magik' session is a journey through different stages of emotions and the 'Search for Sunrise' is

Author: Tiesto
Quote #500324

I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and d

Author: Moby
Quote #500279

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-

Author: Alanis Morissette
Quote #500171

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was mus

Author: Eminem
Quote #500107

Push-ups are seriously the best way to tone your arms - and they tone your abs at the same time! I l

Author: Cassie Scerbo
Quote #500063

Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - and

Author: Summer Glau
Quote #499196

I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. The

Author: Carrie Ann Inaba
Quote #499135

We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off str

Author: Alison Sweeney
Quote #499060

If you ask me about my success story, the secret is I know when to pull myself back. I don't overexp

Author: Sonu Nigam
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My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music wil

Author: Roberta Flack
Quote #498882

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune

Author: K'naan
Quote #498858

I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want t

Author: King Krule
Quote #498835

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tende

Author: Paula Cole
Quote #498804

Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna pla

Author: Brandon Flowers
Quote #498769

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contain

Author: Vanilla Ice
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