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  • When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box. -- Audra McDonald
  • The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? -- David Sarnoff
  • Everything in my room was old and faded, but I loved that about it. It felt like there might be secrets in the walls, in the four-poster bed, especially in that music box. -- Jenny Han
  • The doctor used to tell me that every person about to die becomes a music box playing the melody that best describes his life, his character, and his hopes. For some, it's a popular waltz; for others, a march. -- Patrick Modiano
  • The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow. -- Susan Faludi
  • I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know? -- Tyler, The Creator
  • To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box. -- Brian Setzer
  • Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music. -- Yelawolf
  • My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box. -- Tinashe
  • Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema. -- Ira Sachs
  • If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat. -- Garth Brooks
  • Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box. -- Teddy Thompson
  • I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible. -- Darren Criss
  • I make music from my heart, and from that place, it feels good, you know? I have no boundaries, and no one can put me in a box. If it sounds good, it's good. -- Stephen Marley
  • Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen. -- Ella Maillart
  • I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music. -- Angela Kinsey
  • When we made that album with Gary Moore, I was still kind of searching for the right direction for myself. Although the music is quite good the direction was like a box of fireworks that caught light all at the same time. -- Greg Lake
  • I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love. -- Avicii
  • If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing. -- Jonny Greenwood
  • Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write. -- Katy Perry
  • New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name. -- Yanni
  • In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box. -- Brian Eno
  • I'm putting everything on the line in being able to express myself in a different way than rappers normally do. They might say, 'It's rap' or 'It's R&B,' but I'm stepping outside the box and making music for me and making music for the fans to understand me. I'm going the extra distance to be able to come across different. -- Nayvadius Cash
  • I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially. -- Narada Michael Walden
  • Listen deeper than the music before you put it in the box. -- Tyler, The Creator
  • Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music. -- Yelawolf
  • In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in. -- India.Arie
  • It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box. -- Michael Gungor
  • It's weird that remixes have been associated so much with dance music. I think it's just kind of box-standard to put a beat behind it saying it's a remix. -- Simon Taylor-Davis
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