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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.


Gavin Bryars

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CLIVE DAVIS The opinions, eloquence and articulacy of the man or woman on the street can often be as invaluable ...
KARL WIGGINS There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
BARRY WHITE I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud o...
DAVID CASSIDY In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's jus...
LA INDIA There's nothing better than making music and hearing 3,000 people chant, 'Afrojack! Afrojack...
AFROJACK That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ...
MIKE D A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor peop...
MARCO RUBIO There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinar...
FRANCES O'GRADY I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives
TRACY CHAPMAN Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
BILLY IDOL Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of...
C. K. WILLIAMS Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, ...
DEXTER GORDON And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's b...
STEPHEN KING I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarlies...
GILLIAN WELCH Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I ...
PAZ VEGA Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's nev...
JILL SCOTT His life was unrecorded; who is there to write down the lives of ordinary people?
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another mess...
MATT GROENING When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the ...
LEE BRICE When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no ...
JACK JONES One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect f...
YOTAM OTTOLENGHI We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enrichin...
TIM COOK There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usu...
ADAM JONES I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.
ROMEO SANTOS Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's privat...
PLUTARCH If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. Ther...
COREY TAYLOR There are ordinary people throughout our community who perform extraordinary acts of courage and sel...
BONNIE WILLIAMS There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of a...
NIKKI SIXX The macabre melodies were a surreal audible example of just who I’d been before and a stark contra...
K.A. HILL The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's differ...
NICK JONAS Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God
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PHIL LESH Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way th...
MATTIE STEPANEK There's more to being a musician than just making music.
BURNING SPEAR He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention...
JONNY LANG Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a...
ZIGGY MARLEY Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us...
TITO JACKSON The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences...
CLAIRE DENIS I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do somethin...
BILLY HIGGINS Human rights, race relations, gender politics, health care, and foreign policy - it's a lot to k...
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there&#...
JERRY LEE LEWIS It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music ...
BRANDON BOYD The acting part of me is not me. The music side is who I really am and what I want to talk about. It...
LUCY HALE You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's ...
CALEB JOHNSON You own your feelings. You own your thoughts. You control both. No one has the right to any of it—...
CARLOS WALLACE I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly,...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own...
ARLO GUTHRIE Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please busine...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
ERYKAH BADU I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out the...
JACK ANTONOFF There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like ...
DAVE BRUBECK There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to ...
SADE ADU When the insane people start the chatter, there's no way to win that fight. It's literally l...
JENNIFER KONNER For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep i...
PAT METHENY There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal...
DANIEL EK When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us...
DAVID AMRAM Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you expr...
EMILY BLUNT Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelin...
BERNADETTE PETERS But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by ...
TOM HANKS The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a cont...
CARL BERNSTEIN There's just a proliferation of blogs and the chattering classes and people talking. More avenue...
ANDERSON COOPER I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha...
CHANCE THE RAPPER I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are g...
KAY CANNON Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relati...
JOHN C. MAXWELL What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care...
DENNIS MILLER I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you ca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER We each are artists of the self, creating a collage -- a new and original work of art -- out of scra...
JUDITH VIORST It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to ...
HENRY ROLLINS If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, ther...
BECK I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. ...
ACTION BRONSON Go ahead and develop your gifts and talents and use them to serve the purpose of God for your life b...
SUNDAY ADELAJA If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But th...
KATE SMITH I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, beca...
P. J. HARVEY Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go ...
NEIL YOUNG In the virtual world, lives and feelings are measured not by the distance of miles but by the realit...
TONY G. The difference between the headphones and making music, it's like, okay, I have a new business h...
DR. DRE In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are...
TOMMY LEE JONES I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
FRANCIS COLLINS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's abou...
VIVIAN CAMPBELL People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
WILL COTTON I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; yo...
YAEL NAIM With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's abou...
BUTCH TRUCKS When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you...
ASA BUTTERFIELD The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a ...
HAMPTON SIDES A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference...
ADRIENNE BAILON I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of ...
JOHN OATES There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don&...
JIMMY BUFFETT It is a visual way to show the music. It is just another way for people to experience the music.
KATY MCKINNEY Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrif...
BARRY BONDS The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're...
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GAVIN DEGRAW I love to play music.
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GAVIN DEGRAW I like to do the splits onstage.
GAVIN DEGRAW I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on...
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GAVIN DEGRAW When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to recei...
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GAVIN DEGRAW I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
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GAVIN NEWSOM Now, we can take care of the normal, last-minute preparations.
GAVIN NEWSOM It's just idyllic, ... I think that's what's going to knock people's socks off.
GAVIN NEWSOM The extremes are we have over 550 people in San Francisco earning over $100,000 a year, ... Principa...
GAVIN NEWSOM The extremes are we have over 550 people in San Francisco earning over $100,000 a year. Principally,...
GAVIN NEWSOM My intent is to have the taxpayers pay little or nothing,
GAVIN NEWSOM This is inevitable; it's long overdue; and the public has a fundamental right to have access to info...
GAVIN NEWSOM This is about bringing the heart and soul of San Francisco back to the forefront,
GAVIN NEWSOM I'm sick to my stomach.
GAVIN NEWSOM All of us are in in shock, ... This is a senseless and unexplainable act that goes beyond the pale. ...
GAVIN NEWSOM is wrong and inconsistent with the values this country holds dear.
GAVIN NEWSOM I will not abdicate and step back and say what we were doing 10, 15 days ago -- before this action -...
GAVIN NEWSOM stale rhetoric. Divisive rhetoric. Absurd.
GAVIN NEWSOM I'm opposed to this initiative on every level because it hurts the priorities our community cares mo...
GAVIN NEWSOM My heart is heavy, ... I respectfully disagree with the Supreme Court's decision, but I respect the ...
GAVIN NEWSOM It is too amorphous--the picture is cloudy. It looks like it might develop into a very interesting p...
MICHAEL GAVIN The first question after every screening is, 'Where can I buy the soundtrack?', and that definitely ...
GAVIN HOOD These are senseless inexplicable things that are beyond the pale of imagination, ... It makes you, f...
GAVIN NEWSOM The senator is not going to listen to the president paint a rosy picture on a disastrous situation. ...
TOM GAVIN I am disappointed but I confess I'm not particularly surprised,
GAVIN NEWSOM