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“I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan.”
“I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.”
“My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.”
“The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.”
“I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubb...”
“I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.”
“When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.”
“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure o...”
“Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?”
“The rhythm of a New York summer is passionate and powerful, evoking a rapid calypso, with July being the musical climax.”
“Am I the only one who measures time using songs? Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! thats not to long!”
“Although it was only a single instrument, each note had the peculiar echoed quality of a thousand harmonics voiced together. There was a whisper behind the strongest note and a shout beneath the so...”
“Nothing safe is worth the drive.”
“When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can be perfected. When desires and passions do not turn into wrongful path...”
“Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.”
“You need songs that make you feel. Some make you string, some make you weak. Some build determination, some tear you apart. But you need all of those...Run through the pain.”
“Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into t...”
“Beethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.”
“The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.”
“I have sat through an Italian opera til for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street to solace myself with sounds which I was not ob...”
