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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
I'd rather be entertained and go to a show and watch a drummer and have somebody that makes me actually smile. So I don't judge drummers based on their technical ability; I judge them based on the overall package and what they bring to the music they're part of.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're making this kind of music, you don't need a producer. If you're making pop albums or trying to write hit singles, then yeah, but if you're writing 20-minute prog epics, as long as you know how to make it sound good, and you have a good mixer, that's all you need.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's the drums, the music, the melodies, the lyrics, the production, the artwork: there are so many elements to making an album, and the drumming is just a very small fraction of what I focus on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the Neal Morse Band, we're doing progressive music with a harder edge; it's a little more in Dream Theater territory for me. Flying Colors is a little more poppy, it's more Radiohead, Muse, and Coldplay territory, so I approach that drumming in a different way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it.
- Get A Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up making music in my mum's basement, and I used to tell her I was going down there to work, and she'd say, 'That's not work. Go get a real job!' It took me signing a record deal to change her opinion!
- Blasting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to listen to as much different music as possible - I've always got music blasting in my ears!
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel super, super grateful that I get to make music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing means more to me than making the best music and me getting better as a writer and producer... I want you to know I work really hard. The bar is really high.
- Big Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big fan of country music.
- Being Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.
- Should
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music should speak for itself, and hopefully it will.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what music has always been to me: a feel. I've listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent.
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- Nov 07, 2020