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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique. -- Herbie Hancock
The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way. -- Herbie Hancock
I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which is that music has value, it's subjective and we're moving to a new era where the audience is taking more responsibility for supporting artists at whatever level. -- Amanda Palmer
I see the value in every kind of music, even country. -- Diplo
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. -- Rebecca West
As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music. -- Darren Criss
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it. -- Talib Kweli
I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good. -- Van Morrison
If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process. -- Cecil Taylor
Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't. -- Sarah McLachlan
There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening. -- Autre Ne Veut
The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money. -- Vivian Campbell
One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique. -- Janelle Monae
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. -- Archie Shepp
Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music. -- Leo Ornstein
My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success. -- Wendy O. Williams
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. -- Jonathan Kozol
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art. -- Wynton Marsalis
I do not believe that people should steal music, but I think that fans need a better alternative, hence why I am such a fan of Apple, where you can simply buy a song for $0.99; it is very easy, it is a value-packed service... and this is a result of the shakeup... something has to happen in the music industry. -- Seal
We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world. -- Lupe Fiasco
In the past, hearing music had more value. -- Girl Talk
Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more. -- Hilary Rosen
I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me. -- Bill Walton
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. -- Stephan Jenkins
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? -- David Sarnoff
Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place. -- Charles Duhigg
As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again. -- David Byrne
What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that. -- Carrie Brownstein
The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows. -- Percy Grainger
All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value. -- Charles Gates, Jr.
Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt. -- Sarah McLachlan

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