- Quality
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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.
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- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.
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Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
- Just
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I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.
- Choice
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I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who've stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'
- Inspirational
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I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
- Internet
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I know there's a certain love and affection for the homemade on the Internet, and I'm all for that, too, and I appreciate it in alternative music, and I appreciate it in B-movies and in Sundance, independent films.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.
- America
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I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.
- Banjo
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I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pretty much spent my twenties as a musician and taking acting classes. I loved it. I was at UCLA getting As and Bs in English and creative writing, basically trying to stay out of the Army. All I really wanted to do was play music.
- Education
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There are 58 million people with some kind of disability in America, so it's the largest minority, really, in America, and it lags behind in education and economics and jobs, so outside of 'CSI' and outside of my music, I serve on a couple of boards, and I'm trying to be a part of the movement that changes this.
- Words
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- Nov 07, 2020