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"When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music."
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"To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music."
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"I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it."
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"I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction."
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"When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings."
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"Music will save the world."
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"In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself."
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"Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music."
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"I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do."
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"My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being."
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"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die."
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"I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way."
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"I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City."
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"I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me."
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"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."
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"The roots of Cuban music are in my head."
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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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"I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture."
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"In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat."
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"When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff."
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"When you here a conjunto and you hear another conjunto, you think it's like a continuation of the first. It's all the same, same, same. There's no variety, just the same music."
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"So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America."
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"Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it."
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"Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based on those notes as written and nothing else - has to be divined."
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"Writing music is just something that I was born to do."
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"Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like."
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"I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail."
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"Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models."
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"Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality."
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"There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music."
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"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot."
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"And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day."
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"Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty."
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"If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music."
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"I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days."
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"It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it."
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"I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw."
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"The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing."
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"Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song."
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"First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that."
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"I think I'm a music fan before anything else."
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"Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music."
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"The music I do is food... that will be your dinner."
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"Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film."
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"What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another."
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"Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation."
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"I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years."
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"I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music."
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"Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music."
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"The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone."
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