- Heart
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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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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I make a movie, I always try to figure out what kind of music it would be.
- Nov 07, 2020
I used music and reading to erase my world, so basically I read for up to 16 hours a day for 23 years.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since the Beatles, the concept of lovable mop tops, it's a bit of a fantasy, but it's a lovely idea that people make wonderful music and live a wonderful life being friends together. Sadly, life isn't quite like that.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will never be another 'American Idol,' which produced so many credible superstars over the years. It was a phenomenon in pop culture. It changed music.
- Able
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'
- Grinding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been grinding at music for over a decade now. Since I was 18, I decided that this is what I wanted to do. It's not an easy thing. When you start getting 25, 26, people are like, 'Oh you're a musician huh? That's what you're gonna do? When are you going to get a real job?' I never gave up.
- Nov 07, 2020