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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.
- Sound
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- Nov 07, 2020
I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
- Country Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by country music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music was always ever present when I was growing up, and it's continued to be the most important and intrinsic part of me. It kept me from going off the rails as a kid, and it gave me rare purpose and self-confidence that I couldn't find from anything else.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music industry as a whole needs to genuinely make a conscious effort to look after people's physical and mental health.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mam and dad were blasting Steely Dan when I was born; the music hasn't stopped since then.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
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- Nov 07, 2020