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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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- Nov 07, 2020
As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at somebody like Bach, he didn't need collaborators to write for keyboards, cello, violin or anything else. I feel the same way about my music. The times that I have worked with other people, I've been very unhappy with the results.
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have any singing background. Against the wishes of my parents, I got into making music.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am happy film stars are singing in their films. I hope to work as a music director for a film where actors will sing all the songs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
- Combination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
- Different Type
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.
- Classical Composers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020