- 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.
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- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess my job has always been to build the music, direct the videos, to do all the things that usually fall behind the scenes.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get into the music a lot more.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.
- Range
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with a wide range of music.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is all starting to sound alike in the modern era. Afro-pop sounds exactly like L.A. pop - there's no difference, no ambience, no real resonance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who aren't as interested in recorded music as they used to be will say, 'Oh, 'Buena Vista?' Loved it.' And I'll say, 'Well, how about any of my other recent records. I've been doing some pretty good ones. You like those?' And they go, 'Huh?'
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
R&B and all that stuff was always very spare and spontaneous. Nobody made those records under solid gold situations. It was just in and out, and you didn't labor over the thing. I like music like that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020