- 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
- Commercially
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The places I visit in any given week are my home, so when I'm somewhere that feels good to me, it's a real game changer. If a place causes me to have a strong reaction, be it positive or negative, it'll often find its way into my music.
- Flipped
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.
- American Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beale Street is a very famous street in the history of America. You know, American music in particular. From the blues to jazz, it's a connecting city from New Orleans that goes all the way up to Buffalo through New York.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school. I could hear different stories - the story that they would tell in school, and then the story that I would hear in the music.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter gets a lot of her natural music ability from her mother because she's a world-class singer, also.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are super westernized. My mom listens to western music, my dad was like a pub landlord so he properly embraced English life. But the truth is they both came from tiny villages in Sri Lanka.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020