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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.


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GIORGIO MORODER Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.
GENE SIMMONS Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting...
AMANDA SEYFRIED The music video will die when we all go blind, and music will never die, because even when you can�...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don&...
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BABYFACE I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man ...
TOM WAITS Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.
CHARLES HART The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between...
BUN E. CARLOS Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel.
BIJOU PHILLIPS Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever ...
LEON REDBONE It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can...
AL JARREAU You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in ...
ERIK HASSLE One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of p...
MOBY I think no matter how you think about your music, you're ultimately in the music 'business.&...
MARY LAMBERT You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.
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CASEY JAMES Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's w...
ELVIS PRESLEY I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, eit...
BRIAN ENO I find there is room in music to talk with music. It may expand ways people can participate with mus...
JOHN TRUDELL Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they ...
STEVE AOKI The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the wee...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With ...
CECILIA BARTOLI Keep making pretty music on the inside, even when you feel like you’re dying on the outside.
SCOTTIE SOMERS I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the mus...
J. COLE Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.
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TALIB KWELI I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention ...
DARON MALAKIAN It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn&...
TRENT REZNOR My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each yea...
THOMAS S. MONSON For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define yo...
TAYLOR SWIFT I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can c...
KYGO I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want ...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it o...
ELVIS COSTELLO The son is the national music of Cuba. It has three characteristics that are found in most of the Cu...
CHUCK ARCHARD You make music to change the radio, not make music for the radio.
NAYVADIUS CASH I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.
BERNIE WORRELL For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
FLUME All you can hear today is the increase in the number of "metal bands" daily but no "metal music"!
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RANDY HOUSER I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not...
PAUL SIMON music makes people cry, music makes people smile but most of all music makes you feel alive.
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KATE WINSLET With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful de...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people&...
DOUGLAS HODGE It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bl...
RICKY SKAGGS It doesn't matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn't have ...
CAROL ALT It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about ...
BETH DITTO Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popu...
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ALDEN EHRENREICH There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formul...
EDGAR WINTER You feel a lot more in your hands if the pitch gets in on you and busts you in the handle. It stings...
RYAN HOWARD I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of peo...
BLU CANTRELL It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be abl...
NEIL PEART That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just...
PERRY COMO If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to clas...
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LEE ANN WOMACK Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to con...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language t...
LOU RAWLS Hildegard von Bingen conveys spiritual ecstasy, if we're talking of Western music. What bothers ...
JOHN TAVENER Christmas music works. When we hear the old songs it puts us in the mood. It's all about making peop...
GEORGEANNE BENDER Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen th...
JIMI HENDRIX Being professional makes it easier for me to say no, be honest, and not feel bad about it. However, ...
JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a ya...
DAVID LEE ROTH With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's abou...
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DAVE GROHL Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But o...
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RILEY KEOUGH I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'...
SAM SMITH I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. W...
IMOGEN HEAP I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to...
KATARINA WITT I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over...
BABYFACE Garth Fundis is a song guy. He is in it for the right reasons; he's about the music. He doesn...
TRISHA YEARWOOD It doesn't feel that good when you're ahead the whole way.
STEVE PREFONTAINE Ultimately, at the end of it, it's just trying to get into that space where you feel like you...
CHARLIE HUNTER I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music i...
CASS MCCOMBS I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being...
RYAN GOSLING Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out o...
WAYNE COYNE The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
JONATHAN DAVIS A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of...
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DAVID BYRNE Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.
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IRIS CHANG I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent ...
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IRIS CHANG It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more a...
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IRIS MURDOCH No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to th...
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IRIS MURDOCH I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all...
IRIS APFEL Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
IRIS MURDOCH What is more tormenting than a meeting after a long time, when all the words fall to the ground like...
IRIS MURDOCH I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I l...
IRIS APFEL ...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. L...
IRIS ANTHONY Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn t...
IRIS MURDOCH I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were ...
IRIS APFEL Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of th...
IRIS APFEL You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy thi...
IRIS APFEL As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
IRIS CHANG Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved noth...
IRIS MURDOCH The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more ...
IRIS MURDOCH Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ...
IRIS MURDOCH I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those...
IRIS MURDOCH Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to ...
IRIS JOHANSEN