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  • My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

    "Chris Isaak: 'My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck!'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.
  • There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?

    Clothes   Culture   Stuff  
    Source: www.clashmusic.com
  • Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

  • I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.

    "Going Androidgenous With Janelle Monáe". Interview with Victoria Rossi, www.motherjones.com. November 29, 2010.
  • Great music can come from anywhere around the globe. And there has always been a music business. It just wasn't recorded, nor was it centered in New York, London, Los Angeles or Nashville but rather St Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, Milan and Paris.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

    Music   Country   Guy  
  • Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

    Music   Wisdom   Heaven  
    'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'
  • I feel like it's my responsibility to be the greatest I can be. If I go out there and start making terrible music, I don't expect people to like me. If I'm making great music and there's no reason for people to not like me, that's when it's going to make me upset. People just need to take a chance and listen.

    "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.
  • Maybe the idea of being a rockstar or being the one who's recording or playing, sort of doesn't really matter as much anymore, when you're surrounded by great musicians who bring their spirit, their own talent.

    Ideas   Musician   Matter  
    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • We've all had the experience of you pick up a book, you can't get into it, you can't concentrate.Then one day you pick up the same book and you don't hear the phone ring. You're totally absorbed. Same thing I have to do every day. When you get into that special place of unconsciousness - you get it listening to great music or seeing a great movie - it just takes you out of yourself, out of this whole world. There's no feeling quite like it.

    Book   Phones   Feelings  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.

    "Tchaikovsky May Have Been Gay, Putin Reluctantly Admits" by • Alexander Abad-Santos, www.theatlantic.com. September 4, 2013.
  • Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

    Music   Time   Bills  
    Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster
  • The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

    "Michael Jackson, the King of Pop" by Jel D. Lewis Jones, 2005.
  • For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

    Fall   Appreciate   Kind  
  • Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd gotten from Alan [Lomax]. Alan said, Pete, look at all this great music around. You never hear it on the radio, but it's right there, great music.

    Air   Looks   Lessons  
    Source: www.wholeearth.com
  • Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.

    Sex   Moving   Race  
  • Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

  • I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

  • Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.

    Echoes   Voice   Dwelling  
  • Basically [Louise] Brandeis was a Jeffersonian. And you say the timing is great, and it is in a lot of senses, except not for [Tomas] Jefferson, because this is a Hamiltonian moment, and he's the rock star of the minute with a great musical.

    Stars   Rocks   Musical  
    Source: www.slate.com
  • Put out great music, and that's that

  • Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

  • I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I’m happy, I make great music. When I’m unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.

    Believe   Heart   Artist  
    "BLACK MUSIC MONTH: Legends Speak". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. June 19, 2012.
  • Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

    Source: kandisknightpr.blogspot.com
  • I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

    Motivational   Song   Art  
  • So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.

    Years   Hip Hop   Records  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.

    Art   Inspire   Listening  
    "Alicia Keys Talks Inspiration, Family And Prayer With ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2013.
  • What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

    Mean   Player   People  
  • Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.

    Stars   Hook   Littles  
  • I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

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