- People
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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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- Hendrix
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.
- Greatest Hits
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not interested in gigs unless I really want to do them. I walked away from music in 1997, and then there was a greatest hits in 2002. Thank God, it didn't do too well because the record company wouldn't promote it.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted credit for being a wonderful person or a great human being or looking peculiar. I just wanted credit for the music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and people like that. Later, I heard James Brown, Otis Redding, The Drifters, The Four Aces, The Ink Spots.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fans make you understand it was more than music to them. It was a movement, a voice they felt they didn't have that we expressed for them.
- Nov 07, 2020
Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've never been political, and our fans like us that way. Music is supposed to be fun. But we do drop a positive message.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been in the game for so long, it's great to be honored for our contributions to the game of hip-hop and be told that we're not forgotten about, that our music is timeless.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary period, a complete break with the generation before us in terms of culture, literature, music, and in politics, of course. 1968 was an important year; I was 16, and the world became clear to me, visible, so to say.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know we're conditioned from music and television, so for us, we take great privilege in being role models, and having an impressionable audience its important for us to make sure what we're doing is in line with them.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020