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Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.

We've got a lot of love from Chicago, you know we've been selling out big venues in Chicago that other people don't sell out. Our music is something that's a bit different you know from what's being publicized and that's going against everything else coming out in Chicago.

We were cowards when we sacked him.

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!

When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.

Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of it. It's a compulsion. I've always gotten out of it everything.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.

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

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

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

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

All I want out of music is to think to myself, this could be in a makeover montage.

A life without music is an error.

All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.

All music is good music, if it touches your soul.

A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

All rock music is fake news.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

A new music is a new mind.

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

As an artist, to release music is what you look forward to. That's what everybody looks forward to when they sign a deal. It feels really good to know I'm actually working towards a release date.