- Difficult
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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
- Music Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever.
- Banjo
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020