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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was the special thing about the Carolina Chocolate Drops. We didn't want to do music full-time. We weren't looking to get rich, which is good, because we didn't. But we went further than we thought we would go. We started that band to celebrate Joe Thompson and the black string band music. That's not really a recipe for commercial success.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked women singers and appreciate a good story being told. That's what country music used to do on the radio.
- Banjo
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time music was the inheritance of white America.
- Invisible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm discovering so much about how invisible, othered and dismissed the Islamic world is, in terms of the massive effects it had on European music and culture.
- Commercially
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That's a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated the commercial music business.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music affects people in a way that bare facts can't.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.
- Grabbing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Really I've just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are gonna think about it.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met a lot of label people at the start of doing this music thing, and I just realised soon that it wasn't much about music but more so about their paycheck at the end of the day.
- Selfish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write songs, I play instruments, and I produce music that comes out for the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020