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Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music. -- Will Champion
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. -- Ravi Shankar
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. -- George Jean Nathan
Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy. -- Lukas Foss
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. -- Thomas Beecham
You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music. -- Shirley Manson
Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music. -- Janelle Monae
Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago. -- Mary-Kate Olsen
Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes. -- Dodie Smith
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. -- Anthony Burgess
Great music is great music, period. -- Ricky Skaggs
Put out great music, and that's that -- Foxy Brown
Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining. -- Joe Zawinul
Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre. -- Billy Corgan
Great music is in the ear of the beholder. -- Noel Gallagher
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician -- Michael Parkinson
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music. -- Michael Jackson
To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star. -- Yehudi Menuhin
All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music. -- Sean Combs
You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there. -- Eve Arnold
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. -- Rebecca West
Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on. -- Graham Nash
My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck. -- Chris Isaak
If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music. -- B.o.B
I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music. -- Bruce Dickinson
Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality. -- Bryan White
I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken. -- Benjamin Zander
My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me. -- Luke Bryan
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music. -- Taylor Swift
Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like -- John Zorn
When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time. -- Neal A. Maxwell
If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician. -- Charlie Haden
Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous. -- Alison Brie
No cowboy songs, no hoedowns. It's a more serious piece. Yet every bar of 'Appalachian Spring' is clear, clean, tonal, intelligible - great music that anyone can grasp at first hearing. -- Terry Teachout
I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years. -- Jerry Harrison
I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame. -- Steven Adler
I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start. -- Ina Garten
Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm. -- Kenny Rogers
I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music. -- Sean Combs
How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense. -- Wynton Marsalis
A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered. -- Moby
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. -- Adam Lambert
I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds. -- ASAP Rocky
Music is the great connector. -- Ted Nugent
Country music has the great stories. -- Etta James
Music and yoga have a great synergy. -- Michael Franti
Put out great music, and that's that. -- Foxy Brown
Music empowers the soul with great strength. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The great love of my life is music. -- Mandy Patinkin
My two great loves are music and horses. -- Betty Buckley
Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved. -- Zubin Mehta
Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved. -- Zubin Mehta
There is a great correlation between music and images. -- Graham Nash
My dad's music was a great inspiration to me. -- Julian Lennon
Great music is better than it can be performed. -- Artur Schnabel
My dads music was a great inspiration to me. -- Julian Lennon
I think music sharing of any kind is great. -- Talib Kweli
It is a great life, this life of music, -- Ahmet Ertegun
All great music is in one way or another psychedelic. -- Genesis P-Orridge
Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal. -- Michael Jackson
The thing about Christmas music is the recognizability. It's great. -- Jane Lynch
Paste may be the last great American music magazine left. -- Patterson Hood
Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great. -- Jon Anderson
People need service - great service where music is concerned. -- Jimmy Iovine
Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows. -- Bill Hicks
Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries. -- Clifford Odets
Now, the band that inspired that great saying, "Stop The Music!!" -- Henny Youngman
Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love. -- Herbie Mann
Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me. -- Alicia Keys
SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage. -- Graeme Murphy
I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.. -- Ani DiFranco
Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts. -- Karolina Kurkova
Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape -- Shania Twain
Playing music is such a great way to bring people together. -- Tobias Segal
Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape. -- Shania Twain
More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music. -- Ciara
Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to. -- Victoria Legrand
The '60s were a time of great change in American music. -- Alexandra Patsavas
Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles. -- Matthew McConaughey
Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music. -- Eyedea
A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene. -- Joel Surnow
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. -- Ernst Haas
I think playing music is one of my great joys in life. -- Norah Jones
Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or DJing is great. -- DJ Shadow
I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music. -- Randy Jackson
Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything. -- Ilya Ehrenburg
The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music. -- Margaret Fuller
There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world. -- Willie Nelson
I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax. -- David Suchet
Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today, -- George Strait
Music always brings great things and makes me meet amazing people. It's amazing. -- Marilou
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. -- Billy Bragg
There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity. -- Michael Leunig
A great piece of music is beautiful, regardless of how it is performed. -- Dmitri Shostakovich
I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries. -- Michael Jackson
For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it. -- Jarvis Cocker
Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music. -- Michael Kors
A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy. -- Vinny Appice
Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great. -- Flea
My thesis statement would beâ??Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music. -- Chris Thile
The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities. -- Julia Gillard
All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music. -- Sean Combs
People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things. -- James Young
I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music. -- Vinnie Vincent
Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important. -- Raekwon
In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly. -- Sean O Faolain
It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing. -- Gordon Waller
I'm playing great music with great people and so there's no reason to stop. -- Graham Russell
When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music. -- John McLaughlin
I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have. -- Ginger Baker
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. -- Voltaire
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous. -- Thomas A. Edison
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. -- Edgar Winter
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be. -- Robbie Robertson
The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands. -- Thomas Beecham
Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been. -- Dave Barry
I want to be remembered for making great music and doing great things for people. -- Kanye West
Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree. -- Henry Rollins

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