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“I made my first mix tape when I was 14. I used to play basketball and ride bikes, but I think I just latched onto music because I figured I could be really good at it on my own.”

Thinking Firsts Made Play Used My Own Basketball Music Is Tape Bike

Author:Wiz Khalifa

“Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.”

Thinking Way Ideas Music Is

Author:Alicia Keys

“When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Home Cases Music Is Singing Singers Baskets Healer

Author:Lulu

“A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Years May Play Know How Music Is Classical Music

Author:Jamie Foxx

“When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.”

Thinking Men Looks Together Song Audience Fronts Music Is Singing Independent Sexy Pseudo

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.”

Thinking Years Language Music Is Connections Primitive

Author:Spike Jonze

“It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.”

Thinking Way Writing Kind Facts Music Is Another Way Way Of Thinking

Book:Very Far Away from Anywhere Else

Source: Very Far Away from Anywhere Else

“I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.”

Thinking Want I Can Sound Type Music Is Diverse Describe Myself

Author:Tyga

“I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.”

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Author:Ice Cube

“At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'”

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Author:John Lennon

“The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help.”

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Author:John Lennon

“I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.”

Thinking Film Pieces Music Is Musical Theatre Engines

Author:John Kander

“After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing of pop music and rock music, I don't think anyone really believes that music is anything more than another commodity.”

Thinking Believe Stars Rocks Music Is Marketing Pops Naked Shooting Commodity Pop Music Rock Music Lennon Early Death

Author:Stephen Fry

“I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.”

Thinking Country Hard Music Is Tongue Cheeks Tongue In Cheek Country Love

Author:Mick Jagger

“Music is for people to hear, I can't think of anything else it could be for. Unless you believe in God, and I don't think God really would be all that interested. I'm sure when Bach wrote for the greater glory of God, he really didn't think that God was going to sit down at breakfast and listen to his cantatas. I think he meant for higher purposes than earning a living.”

People Thinking Believe I Can Would Be Purpose Greater Higher Music Is Glory Breakfast Believe In God Earning Glory Of God Higher Purpose Earning A Living

Author:Richard Meale

“Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.”

Thinking Stuff Generations Music Is Ultimate

Author:Delbert McClinton

“I think we listen to music because we want to be changed. Music is not solely for our entertainment. Music has such tremendous power to bring joy. To me, that's our job as artists. Not happiness, not a groove, whatever. You must bring joy. I think that's the assignment. I have no doubt about it.”

Thinking Want Jobs Joy Artist Doubt Changed Music Is Entertainment No Doubt Listening To Music Assignments Groove

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.”

Thinking Music Is Angry Intention Best Intentions

Author:Ariel Pink

“I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.”

Thinking Hard Culture Music Is Notion Linked Preconceived Notions

Author:Esperanza Spalding

“Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.”

People Thinking Listening Cold Music Is Electronic Music

Author:Imogen Heap

“You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.”

Thinking Knows Language Music Is Interactive

Author:Jake Shimabukuro

“For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.”

Thinking Important Too Much Danger Music Is Instruments Important Things Guitar Guitar Playing

Author:Jerry Garcia

“I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.”

Thinking Mean Done Findings Music Is Right Thing

Author:Zac Efron

“The music is an important and crucial part to an animated film. You don't think about it, but you can watch Tom and Jerry with no words, for hours, and the music dictates the emotion and where the story is going and how you're supposed to feel. Everything is in the music.”

Thinking Feels Important Stories Film Hours Emotion Watches Music Is Crucial Toms Animated Jerry Animated Films Tom And Jerry

Author:Rihanna

“The first song I ever learned to sing and play on the piano was 'I Remember Sky' when I was 10 years old. I remember thinking, This is the most beautiful song I will ever hear. And that remains true for me to this day. His music is the sole reason I wanted to be on Broadway. I wanted to sing music that transports us to the most important place one can travel, our hearts.”

Thinking Years Firsts Heart Important Reason Play Wanted Beautiful Remember Song Sky Music Is Remains Piano This Day Sole Broadway Transport

Author:Laura Benanti

“Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.”

Thinking Together Common Music Is Notes Musical Tone Links Closest Life Together Musical Notes

Author:Marvin Gaye

“[Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [...] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

“Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.”

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Author:Willie Nelson

“That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.”

Thinking Rocks Honest Music Is Authenticity Rock Music

Author:Jonathan Jackson

“Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They also forget that music can be a source of hope, a reason to live.”

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Book:Wicked Game

Source: Wicked Game

“I think everybody who relates to music is kind of isolated. It's lonely. Everyone who uses the creative side of their brain is that much removed from reality. They are looking for answers wherever they can find them.”

Thinking Kind Use Reality Sides Answers Brain Creative Music Is Lonely Relate Isolated

Author:Laura Marling

“A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”

Thinking Art Music Goes On Music Is Poetry Is

Author:W. H. Auden

“I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film.”

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Author:Jonathan Demme

“I used to be the guy who wanted to do everything myself, wanted to write and play everything myself, but the older I've gotten, the more collaborations I've gotten. I really enjoy working with other people to create different styles of music, because I really do listen to everything, and I enjoy every kind of music. I think some of the best stuff comes from working with people who have different perspectives on the same thing.”

People Thinking Writing Kind Different Play Wanted Used Guy Stuff Enjoy Style Perspective Music Is Used To Be Collaboration Different Perspective Different Styles Working With Others

Author:Piggy D.

“I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.”

Thinking Parent Growing Up Growing Car Listening Essentials Music Is Sitting Listening To Music

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.”

Thinking Knows Has Beens Sleep Honest Music Is Being Honest Going To Sleep

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.”

Thinking Important Culture Music Is Species Musical

Author:Oliver Sacks

“The only good thing about religion is the music. Because nature is filled with balances and opposites, there are always exceptions to the overall rules, whether the overall rules are bleak or otherwise. If you propound a joyous theory of existence, I will find an exception to that. If I propound a bleak theory, someone will find a joyous exception. That's just nature being nature, I think, and I don't think it offers a lot of hope. It's sort of a respite along the way.”

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Author:George Carlin

“I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my parents worked. I obviously wanted to learn to play. And so she asked if she could teach me, and my mother said don't you think she's too young. My grandmother apparently said no. So I could read music before I could read, and I really don't remember learning to read music. So for me it's like a native language. When I look at a sheet of music, it just makes sense.”

“The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me. But, I think it just came from being affected by strong, personal art.”

Thinking World Writing Art Stills Use Song Strong Powerful Scene Music Is Available Hopefully Affected Power Of Music Strong Person Most Inspiring

Author:Cameron Crowe

“I think that the loss of confidence in yourself to make good music is what being jaded is.”

Thinking Loss Music Is Jaded Confidence In Yourself

Author:Howard Lawrence

“I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Comfort Creating Music Is Zone Comfort Zone Bizarre

Author:Lauryn Hill

“I think my music is born out of the music that I personally like to listen to. I love amazing singer-songwriters and diverse artists but it's important to know your strengths.”

Thinking Knows Important Artist Born Music Is Singers Diverse Songwriters Singer Songwriters

Author:Hoodie Allen

“I think my music is definitely country but it's got a little bit of that rock flair about it. I always try to find the things that everyday people deal with in their everyday lives and situations in the songs that I sing.”

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Author:Jason Aldean

“I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.”

Thinking Country Form Mass Music Is Appeals

Author:Jason Aldean

“What I like to do with music is make people feel better. Make people realize that all humans have the same problems, more or less. A lot of people deal with the same thing. A lot of times people think problems are specific to them and they if they hear a song about a problem common to them, they feel good because they know that someone else has gone through it.”

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Author:Jack Johnson

“Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Writing Mean Song Painting Music Is Imaginary Canvas Amazing Things

Author:Lou Reed

“I think the more music becomes something you could simply download and have on your iPod, I think to a lot of people that is plenty, but to some people, they still want these artifacts that are touchable, and you can smell them, and look at them, and hold them and just have other dimensions of experience with this music.”

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Author:Wayne Coyne

“I don't really have an ambition to become the Rolling Stones, or anything like that. For me, it's just playing music is kind of a transcendent, amazing gift, so when people come together and they play, I think it's a real special thing.”

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Author:Jonathan Jackson

“Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.”

Thinking Art Levels Music Is Art Is Great Art

Author:Joel Plaskett

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