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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.
- Stops
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music stops you from thinking.
- Fiction Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.
- True
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Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.
- Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020