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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
- Nov 07, 2020
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need weird breakages to happen for music to feel true to life, and I think that also applies to good film scores.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love thinking of music of this way to access some kind of illogical realm filled with all kinds of aberrations and weird stuff. It's not implicit in music to have a story, so it creates this incredible potential for vague stories.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always screwing around with music, but I really wanted to go to film school when I was in high school. I guess what happened was that I didn't get into Tisch, that's what happened. I got deferred. And I went to Hampsire and ended up making music like everybody else there.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's a problem I have a lot of the time with humor in music, where it just kind of stops at the obvious level of: 'Hey, isn't it something that's in bad taste?'
- Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.
- Hardwired
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- Nov 07, 2020
Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.
- Pop Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Games isn't really pop music, and neither is OPN. Both are part of the same ecosystem and both deal with exploring the undercurrents of pop music.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never totally sold on this idea that I'm just a musician. I wanted to be the Tim Burton of music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't always totally interested solely in music as a sort of visceral expression of people in unison and synchronized, a federated expression of a group of people. I loved it as a wallflower, as a fan, but when I was in it, I always felt like I wasn't built for it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely strive towards something I think of as a hallucination of music. That's always been the OPN vibe. I think of it as mostly a felt thing, and a koan of feeling that is shared between me and OPN fans. We know what it is when it gets there.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eccojams are a very simple exercise where I just take music I like, and I loop up a segment, slow it down, and put a bunch of echo on it - just to placate my desire to hear things I like without things I don't.
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Martin was a great, complex folk singer, and later on, his music became more and more melancholic as he went through a separation with his wife.
- Fragmentation
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- Nov 07, 2020