- 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
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very impatient person. I love dancing, I love music, and I love eating life.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
- Good Acting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make music because I like making music.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
- Famous Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020