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“There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.”

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Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.”

Artist Order Pieces Painting Music Is Admire Chaotic Disconnected

Author:Anthony Storr

“Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.”

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Author:David Byrne

“What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where 'the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere'? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.”

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Book:At the Edge of History

Source: At the Edge of History

“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.”

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Author:John Kander

“There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly an independent. The one thing coplanar with music is the compositional aspect, the fact that you are composing something. Architecture is essentially a score, and what happens with it depends on the people who play it, enjoy it, use it, or hate it.”

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Author:Rafael Vinoly

“All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.”

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Author:Steve Reich

“Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.”

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Author:Charles Hazlewood

“Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest."”

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Author:Frank Sinatra

“When Michael (Jackson) died, it felt like part of my family died. I want [my fans] to know that my music is for them and if, god forbid, anything happened [to me], it would be like a piece of them is gone.”

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Author:The Weeknd

“A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.”

Beautiful Pieces Music Is Prelude

Author:Dmitri Shostakovich

“One good thing about a good book or a good film, or maybe even a song, I'm not a musician but I love to listen to music, is the range that each piece is able to give you. Like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen, 1975, that song is so epic. It goes in so many different places, it's and opera and it is heavy metal, and it's so crazy as it goes every which way. I kind of like films like that.”

“If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to explain what a piece of music is like. You can't do it.”

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Author:Shane Carruth

“My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies.”

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Author:Sinead O'Connor

“Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.”

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Author:Arca

“I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.”

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Author:Arca

“If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.”

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Author:Robert Ashley