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“Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault.”

Thinking Seems Song Missing Music Is Structure Assault Overcompensating

Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.”

Thinking Art Music Is Cooking

Author:Frank Fairfield

“I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.”

People Thinking Knows Stuff Animal Music Is Honestly Factors Collectives

Author:Bradford Cox

“You can't be unique any way. Music is made from seven notes. You will always come back to something. Even if you think you are unique, you will come back to something that existed before you were doing what you are doing.”

Ifs Thinking Way Made Music Is Unique Notes Seven

Author:Rokia Traore

“American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here.”

Thinking Way Audience Music Is Festivals African Music

Author:Rokia Traore

“I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.”

Thinking Needs Reason Care Taken Havens Music Is Performances Mediums

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.”

Thinking Photography Music Is Mixtures Personal Experiences

Author:Sune Rose Wagner

“I love touring, I love making records, but eventually all I want...I want to score. I want people to ask me to score their film or use my songs in cinematic ways. I think the ultimate media is a story that you can watch and feel and have a musical moment to. I think it's my favorite. I love watching something when music is creating motion within the motion.”

People Thinking Way Want Feels Moments Stories Use Film Song Asks Watches Records Media Creating Music Is Ultimate Musical My Favorite Ask Me Score Touring Love Making Cinematic

Author:Justin Vernon

“I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.”

Thinking Events Music Is Selfish Makers Listeners

Author:Joshua Homme

“The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking.”

Thinking Music Is Classical Music Soothing

Author:Rolonda Watts

“I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings bouncing off of each other whether its from the stage or to the audience, or jamming with friends.”

Thinking Humans Real Human Beings Audience Stage Music Is Supposed To Be Being Real Spontaneous Real Human Be Spontaneous

Author:Tod Machover

“I think from age 13, 14, 15, I thought, yes, this rich studio produced music is the future, but it can't be the future to go run away into the recording studio. How can we take that kind of complexity and richness and make it possible for people to touch it and play it live. That's what hyperinstruments are.”

People Thinking Kind Play Running Age Rich Music Is Studios Complexity Running Away Richness Recording Studio

Author:Tod Machover

“I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level.”

Thinking Art Beautiful Form Difficult Levels Pieces Emotional Music Is Implicit Avant Garde

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“I think the old school, back in the day, 10 to 15 years ago in music, is like you launch one single and you just let that ride out. Right now, you've got folks like Chris Brown, he just won't let up, he's got mixtape after mixtape, they're playing songs on the radio from the mixtape and then he's got songs on the album and videos and he's got remixes he's jumping on.”

Thinking Years School Song Like You Right Now Music Is Years Ago Folks Radio Albums Video Brown Jumping Old School Back In The Day Remix Mixtapes

Author:Tyrese Gibson

“I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long as our music is available, folks are going to hear it.”

People Thinking Feels Long Music Is Folks Available

Author:Gil Scott-Heron

“I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does all art in my music, because there's stories, there's acts, there's moods, there's dynamics, there's moodiness, emotion. All of those things that play into a film. I think that could equally be said about music. It definitely informs me. Beats is stories.”

Thinking Doe Art Said Play Stories Film Levels Emotion Students Music Is Beats Mood Dynamics Movie Love Love Films Moodiness

Author:Q-Tip

“I hear something I like, and sometimes, I think it's gonna work, and I will cut it up, try it out, try to work with other material. Sometimes, it falls flat, and other times, it works out, so in that way, I'm constantly listening to music because I enjoy it.”

Thinking Way Trying Sometimes Fall Enjoy Cutting Materials Listening Music Is Work Out Flats Listening To Music

Author:Girl Talk

“I don't listen to music before a race - my coach doesn't like it, he thinks I might lose my focus and concentration.”

Thinking Might Loses Race Focus Music Is Coaches Concentration Listening To Music Focus And Concentration

Author:Usain Bolt

“I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.”

Thinking Together Rocks Music Is Pops Punk Rock Music

Author:Travis Barker

“I just think that pop music is very interesting in how it can reach so many people. I like that I can tell stories and I just wanted to be heard more, I guess. That's why it's pop, but in my mind I don't really view my music as pop, I don't really view it as anything. I just look at it as a picture, I like visuals.”

People Thinking Mind Looks I Can Stories Wanted Interesting Views Heard Music Is Pops Visuals Very Interesting Pop Music

Author:Melanie Martinez

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Important Stories Use Amount Messages Music Is Spread Pops Platforms Pop Music

Author:Melanie Martinez

“On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I think it's really cool that I get to do my own thing now.”

Thinking Shows Voice My Own Type Music Is Singing Originals Really Cool Original Music

Author:Melanie Martinez

“I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.”

People Thinking Should Music Is Criticize

Author:Vince Staples

“I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.”

Thinking Way Different Music Is Albums One Way Different Things Personal Things

Author:Mark Stoermer

“The '70s were full of creativity. Everybody was so unique. It was a very creative period, and I think to be a designer you have to know a little about art and literature and music because there is inspiration in all of these things. You're looking for beauty but also something that makes sense.”

Thinking Knows Littles Art Inspiration Literature Creativity Creative Periods Music Is Unique Make Sense Designer Literature And Music

Author:Carolina Herrera

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Shows My Own Music Is Finished Video Visuals

Author:Trentemøller

“I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.”

Thinking Difficult Pieces Music Is Puzzles Esoteric

Author:Pat Metheny

“I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.”

People Thinking Want Music Is Be You Frontiers

Author:Regina Spektor

“I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.”

Thinking Stories Music Is Singers Songwriting Songwriters Singer Songwriters Americana

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.”

People Thinking Knows Want Character Actors Speak Know How Music Is Insert

Author:Chuck Berry

“I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.”

People Thinking Records Music Is Music Business

Author:Master P

“I guess music is the one universal art form that most people can be moved by, regardless of where they come from, and for many it might be the closest they get to god, but I think taking a trip out into the country, away from the light pollution, and looking at a clear night sky is what does it best for me.”

People Thinking Doe Art Country Light Might Form Night Clear Sky Music Is Universal Moved Pollution Closest Night Sky

Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and then you use these words to create a story, but with music. And they really need to know how to mix and match those letters and how to come up with something that is really interesting, or speak in metaphors as poets do to show us something maybe we didn't think about.”

Thinking Knows Needs Should Stories Use Shows Kids Together Speak Interesting Know How Poet Music Is Letters Metaphor Come Up Really Interesting Alphabet

Author:Terry Bozzio

“I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.”

Thinking Film Opportunity Music Is Hollywood

Author:Terry Bozzio

“I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.”

Thinking Should Wells Book Eye Left Imagination Brain Music Is Ears

Author:David Gilmour

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

Ifs Thinking Feels Beautiful Sound Music Is Feel Good Genre Beautiful Things Make You Feel Good

Author:DJ Khaled

“I think playing music is one of my great joys in life.”

Thinking Joy Music Is Playing Music Great Joy

Author:Norah Jones

“Music is fun. It should be fun. And that's the key, I think. Keep it as the thing you love.”

Thinking Should Fun Keys Music Is Things You Love

Author:Norah Jones

“We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Whole Stories Groups Influence Right Now Music Is Negative Savior Good People Story Of My Life Negative Influence

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.”

Thinking Art Amount Music Is Art Is Objectives Surprising

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Ireland is a place that's beautiful and interesting, but I remember when I went there as a teenager with my parents, I was like, "Okay, I'll go to Ireland with my parents. It's going to be green." I think people underestimate it, in that it's, "Oh, it's green," and then you get there, and it's like, "Wow, it is green!" It's, "Oh, there's Irish music," and then you get there, and you're like, "Oh, this Irish music is amazing!" You underestimate it.”

People Thinking Beautiful Remember Parent Interesting Music Is Okay Green Teenager Wow Ireland Underestimate Remember When Irish Music

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.”

People Thinking Honest Music Is

Author:George Michael

“I think music is such an extension of who we are, and the fact that I've gone through as much as I have, good, bad, and ugly, has really helped to shape the songs that I picked.”

Thinking Facts Song Gone Shapes Music Is Ugly Who We Are Extensions

Author:Demetria McKinney

“I think music is my destiny. I want to commit myself for what God called me to do.”

Thinking Want Destiny Music Is Commit My Destiny

Author:Michael W. Smith

“I still think of myself as punk, because the way I became empowered to play music is entirely due to punk bands.”

Thinking Way Stills Play Band Music Is Dues Punk Empowered

Author:John K. Samson

“There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music is about.”

Thinking Soul Artist Music Is Music Soul New Artists

Author:D'wayne Wiggins

“I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.”

Thinking Artist Music Is Legacy

Author:Ginuwine

“Because of the irresistible nature of our own Imagos, I think the replication of it in music is a siren song - we love those tormented songs, and we listen to them over and over and over the way that we smash ourselves into our lovers, or the same kind of lover, over and over. That drive is tireless, until it is resolved. And we can "enjoy" it safely through music, which is a simulacrum we have power over.”

Thinking Way Kind Song Enjoy Lovers Music Is Irresistible Sirens Simulacrum Replication Siren Song

Author:Melissa Febos

“Music is very personal. It is not objective. We're not talking about how tight they were. How famous they are. How rich they are. For me it's like food. You taste it, and you either love it, or you think it's boring, or it tastes bad, which is three reactions I have with music, just like food, it's very personal.”

Thinking Three Talking Rich Taste Music Is Boring Reactions Objectives Not Talking

Author:Gordon Raphael

“Irish music is guts, balls and feet music, yeah? It's frenetic dance music, yeah? Or it's impossibly sad like slow music, yeah? Yeah? And it also handles all sorts of subjects, from rebel songs to comical songs about sex, you know what I mean, yeah? Which I don't think people realize how much innuendo there is in Irish music.”

People Thinking Knows Mean Song Sex Realizing Feet Subjects Music Is Balls Yeah Handle Guts Rebel Comical Dance Music Innuendo Irish Music

Author:Shane MacGowan

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