- Moment
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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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- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted contemporary music to be treated the same as the traditional repertoire - performed regularly by people who knew each other and the music. That is the way you convince an audience.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.
- Empty Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.
- Comma
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It must surprise people that I'm such a rap fan, but it's true. Sometimes, just staying in, putting on some rap music, and letting loose is all I need to have a good time.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no idea why I won, man. I guess some people liked the music that I was doing. I'm just lucky. I was just doing my thing each week.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm nervous, but once I get a guitar on and start a song, after the first few seconds, I can feel it ease. I don't have to worry about anything other than the music.
- Food Network
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I'm not amazing at it, but I can cook myself a good meal. And I'm not just saying this, but anytime I'm on the bus or at home, I'm watching Food Network or cooking on TV just 'cause it's interesting to me.
- Nov 07, 2020