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Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.

Pete Waterman

Music Question Technology World

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I’m a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

John Romero

Day Games Love May Music Sound Will

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully – love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

Tony Snow

Confusion Fear Joy Longing Love Lust Moods Music Obvious Politics Writers Yearning

When someone pursues music through your music, that’s the greatest accolade anybody can get.

Rick Springfield

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Layne Staley

Music Photography Writing

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

Hilary Rosen

Artists Community Music

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

Brian Setzer

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it’s hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

Jerry Reed

Earth Listening Music

You don’t want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

Adam Rich

Money Music People Support Want

I don’t know if it’s a movement, but the only thing new that’s happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that’s on television, and people see that all the time – you see a fusion of all those things.

Stephen Sprouse

Art Fashion Music People Television Time

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

Jon Secada

Career Education Music

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

George Santayana

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

Cassandra Wilson

African American Jazz Music

I’ve been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I’m trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.

Emily Rossum

Acting Character Music People Spirit Trying Want

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it’s still too far-out.

Klaus Schulze

Company Music Problems

I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But… it doesn’t really make sense for me to try to be something that I’m not.

Carrie Underwood

Being Country Country music Music People Sense Singing Thought

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

Tommy Shaw

Attention Being Music Open People Time

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

Little Richard

Country Country music Love Music

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They’re very annoying.

Neil Young

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

George Edward Woodberry

Art Life Music Voice Words

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

River Phoenix

Touring with King Crimson wasn’t a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was in improvised music I’d set it up myself, play the gig, and put it all away again.

Jamie Muir

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

Robert Moog

First Music Musicians Order

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

Anthony Trollope

Answers Dance Eye Light Music Questions Voice

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

Giorgio Moroder

Dance Dancing Music People Want Will

You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that’s what I love about music, it can bring people together.

Charles King

Love Music People Song Will

I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don’t appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you’ll never give an emcee props.

Talib Kweli

Artists Hell Honesty Music Words

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

Lee Konitz

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

Sting

But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I’m still like more a fan.

Obie Trice

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.

William Stafford

Doesn’t anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

Howard Stringer

Books Dying Hell Music Sex Time Vision Want Will World

Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.

Richard Morris

Music Self Talent Today Will

It’s like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.

Jonny Greenwood

When I use the Internet, it’s pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people’s web sites, what’s going on, listening to music. It’s pretty much a musical thing for me.

Liz Phair

Internet Listening Music People Pretty

All music has to speak in some form or other.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

Joanna Newsom

Folk Music Obvious Songs

Music should be your escape.

Missy Elliot

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.

Terry Riley

Music Musicians Play Repetition Sound

Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.

Eddie Van Halen

Music People Popular Word Work

I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.

Alannah Myles

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

Robert Fripp

Genius Music Play Present Sleep

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Jonathan Edwards

Jazz needs the help. It’s the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn’t.

Billy Higgins

Help Jazz Music Needs

My music was typically continental – nothing like, say, The Beatles.

Giorgio Moroder

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

Tanya Tucker

Influence Music

We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others.

Stephen Hopkins

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

Children Curriculum Drilling Labor Music People Time

So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

Terry Riley

Music Repetition

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.

Charlie Parker

Art Experience Man Music Thoughts Wisdom

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