- Chasing
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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
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music that is considered minimalism - or post-minimalism music in general - things of that nature or that come from that tradition, or even drone, or non-western music, have a more subtle and more open-ended verticality to them that allows for your own mind and body to be involved.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I think about things or hear things in my head is actually much closer to acoustic instruments. I don't have weird synthesized fantasy of music in my head.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially in repetitive music, to make a long piece of music you have to be extremely skilled in your sleight of hand. Just to make long form music it's very difficult and you really have to consider what you're putting someone through.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The easiest way for me to tell someone what I do is to say that I'm a non-musician who practises and produces music. I don't have a theoretical language for music. I have this abstract dream language.
- Detour
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I wanted to write films and make films. Even as I took this detour and stayed in the music world, I still think in terms of 'What is in this room? What is the shot? Who are the characters? What is the conversation here?' My sense of pacing is very filmlike, it's not musical.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.
- Rocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
The She Rocks Awards does so much for women in music, and I'm excited to be a part of it.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew from when I was six that music would be my life, and I used to spend most of my time in the music room.
- Electric Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was inspired to play electric guitar from listening to a lot of Carlos Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and B.B. King, and that's always been the kind of music that I gravitate toward.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all about inspiring young musicians to get out there and express themselves through music.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is not a sport - one is not better than the other. You just like what you like and get inspired.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad used to listen to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, and my mom liked Michael Bolton and Roy Orbison. She was pretty big into country music, too. So there was a wealth of music being played in the house, and I kind of took it all in.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020