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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
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
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
Life Music
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
Business Music
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
Creation Music
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
Fun Music Play
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
Ego Music
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
Sting
Hate Music
But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I’m still like more a fan.
Obie Trice
Music
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.
William Stafford
Dance Music
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
Music Talk
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
Music
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
Music
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
Dance Music
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
Mind Music
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
Music Nothing
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
Music
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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