- Me
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.
- Cater
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's all I ever do, just try and do the best I can and cater to the song, cater to the music.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't make music to make money, because that's not why you should be doing it. Have fun, be creative, and embrace the past.
- Contemporary Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intelligent use of contemporary music in film has an enormous audience.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted 'Most Literary Boy.' I can assure you I was not voted 'Mostly Likely to Succeed.' I was voted 'Most Musical Boy.' And the music led to the poetry.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020