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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
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
- Entertainment Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to each other at the dinner, and we just hit it off and kept in touch ever since. He was just the gentle giant in real life like you would have expected him to be.
- Connected
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I've always loved doing is hanging out and talking music with other artists.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always pick myself up by doing a dance session. I turn on really good music and have a lot of food and mentally I just take that time to cocoon and rebuild myself.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both the nationalists and the communists disapproved of jazz and feared it. They thought it would weaken people's resolve to fight off the invasion. And most Americans know, China did ban all Western music for about 30 years, starting in 1949. This is where it started.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020