- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music Quotes
Quotes on music and creative calling.
These quotes describe music as near-constant background for some, and as a true calling for others - one line simply states a feeling of being destined for it. A few discuss resisting one narrow sound in favor of exploring many styles. Related reading includes Funny Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I make music is so that I can influence people and inspire people, but I also want to make music that I feel happy about and that I feel is good. The challenge, which is why it's worth keeping going, is to constantly strive to figure out where the meeting place is.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around 2008 was a really special time culturally. There were a lot of cool things going on in music, in fashion, politically. It was a really hopeful time and a really creative time.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.
- Characterized
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer role... I find it so satisfying to be behind the scenes and writing the music and watching it elevated and characterized by different voices than my own. It's so exciting.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with writing pop music. The main point is to tell the story. You just have to make sure the character's voice is strong and the storytelling is strong.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think live music is really, really important. And I think it's very important to do together. It's much more fun to play to music together than the one person listening to their lone iPod Shuffle. I think it's an amazing way to build community and have children do things that are funded that's not a videogame.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by.
- Certain Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is what I always dreamed of doing. But at a certain point in my career, they convinced me to act, and that started me acting.
- Certain Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to get my kids - in particular, my step-daughter Mary, who's 12 - to recommend music to me. You reach a certain age and realise you haven't kept up, but I don't want to fall behind.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020