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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Meant To Be
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the worst of times, music is a promise that times are meant to be better.
- Embodies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
School work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people hate the remixes, some people think it's cool. If you don't like that type of music and just like rock, you probably won't like it. But if you are open to more things, you just might dig it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music should never be harmless.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020