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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
To me, dance music is a lot of space - to listen to other things than melodies. I think club music and dance music really require a different way of listening.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I say dance music, it's anything that makes me want to dance. It could be Timbaland and Missy Elliott, but it could also be disco music and samba music: It's not relying on melody in the same way; it's more about rhythm.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to music very intensely as well: When I listen to an artist I really love, I feel like I know them. I feel like I understand what they're thinking about, even though I've never met them or talked to them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I didn't know much about Prince - who he was and all the complexities of his personality - but I could still feel very close to him when I listened to his music.
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While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.
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I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.
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The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.
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The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.
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Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.
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The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.
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Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
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- Nov 07, 2020