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“I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages that I think are really important for people to be aware of, I would want it to be on the biggest platform and I feel like pop is that. I use it as a way to tell stories.”

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Author:Melanie Martinez

“If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“Even if I don't think in visuals about the music while I'm doing it, after the music is finished, it could be great to incorporate that in the live show or doing my own music videos.”

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Author:Trentemøller

“If it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.”

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Author:Nipsey Hussle

“[Doing music] is time consuming, will drain you, and stress you out at times. But in the end if you love doing it, and you're putting out music you're proud of, it will never feel like work. It'll just feel like love.”

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Author:Melanie Martinez

“I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.”

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Author:Phil Collins

“I was doing my music because it was fun, and I always was like, "If it becomes a business, or it becomes too demanding, or if people try to tell me what to do or control what I'm doing, I won't do it."”

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Author:Cakes da killa

“It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.”

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Author:Nina Simone

“I think music isn't just a genre or sound. If it sounds good and makes you feel good it's a beautiful thing.”

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Author:DJ Khaled

“With the way music is going right now, it's difficult for an r&b singer to make real music. If it's not with a trap beat and you're not mumbling, no disrespect to all of the great artists out there doing what they're doing, I'm not hating, I'm just saying it's difficult for r&b singers right now to make quality music.”

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Author:Tony Sunshine

“Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio stations, U.S. artists aren't compensated when their records are played on U.K. stations based on the fact that there's no reciprocity. If that income came in, our artists would be paying income taxes on it. So if we can get a lot of policy on the radar, that may have some positive influence.”

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Author:Neil Portnow

“If this is what you love and music is your passion, it's always ways to get through things and find ways to get around things.”

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Author:Keith Sweat

“Whenever I do my live shows, I feel artistically inspired and excited because I get to do and say a lot of things that I can't if I just make a record. A lot of times it's the only way people are going to hear my music because you don't get to have your music played on Top 40 if you're above the age of 35.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“The goal with my music is to maintain a certain honesty and quality. That sounds pretty pretentious as if I'm trying to imply no one else is doing this - I don't believe that. I merely mean to say that what everyone else is doing easily, that is to say, creating without impediment - is sort of difficult for me.”

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Author:Milo

“If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.”

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Author:Kim Nam-joon

“Indian music is brilliant and for me, anyway, (this is only personal) it's got everything in it. I still like electronics and all sorts of music if it's good but Indian music is just... an untouchable you can't say what it is, because it just is.”

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Author:George Harrison

“If I had to collaborate with anybody on a song, I would pick Kendrick Lamar because he is so dope as an artist and I love his hustle and his passion. He is fearless and the way he comes to the music is like we share the same passion for what we do and with somebody from the West. In my opinion that would be a great collaboration.”

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Author:Adrian Marcel

“Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you.”

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Author:Nina Simone

“In all honesty, based on the direction my life was heading in before I got a real break in the music sh*t, I'm not gonna say I would be one hundred percent in a negative direction, but I know that I would still be in the streets, so if it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.”

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Author:Nipsey Hussle

“If I'm reading about a river or the trees or the wind blowing or the stars at night, if you can hear that in the music in some way, you've wedded the two and your imagination takes off. To be able to hear that in music is really important.”

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Author:Julie Andrews

“Phil [Wood] said to me in the car going back, he said, "Look man, you better know why you're playing this music. Because I've known too many who lived and died for it. And if you're not trying to change the world, I'm not interested."”

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Author:Jon Gordon

“If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.”

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Author:Bryan Adams

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”

Source: A Preface to Morals

“Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.”

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Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“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.”

“If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.”

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Author:Lou Rawls

“I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.”

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Book:Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Source: Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.”

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Author:James Taylor

“I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.”

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Author:Eddie Vedder