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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things. -- K. A. Applegate
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays. -- Theo James
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
A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long. -- Russell Smith
All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time. -- Charles Hazlewood
I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natural to switch over. -- Rila Fukushima
As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time. -- Nobuo Uematsu
Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often. -- Kelis
I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear. -- Kathy Mattea
I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie. -- Larenz Tate
Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool. -- Eddie Van Halen
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. -- Allen Toussaint
Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing. -- Madi Diaz
Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit. -- Casey Kasem
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries. -- Bahman Ghobadi
I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music's the only thing that's managed to stick out for a long period of time. -- Gin Wigmore
So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to. -- Lee Ann Womack
I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent. -- Rivers Cuomo
I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again. -- Ian Anderson
If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come. -- Bobby Short
Life is too short to play bad music -- Bob Brozman
The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body. -- Richard Powers
It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins. -- Richard Wagner
Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music. -- Alber Elbaz
I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music. -- Tim Crane
It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it. -- Joe Budden
As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song. -- Thighpaulsandra
Spencer was searching for a woman interested in gold, inorganic chemistry, outdoor sex and the music of Bach. In short, he was looking for himself, only female. -- Woody Allen
Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes. -- Alyson Noel
What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy. -- Walter Raleigh
Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales. -- Jay Heinrichs

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