- American Music
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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
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
- Strange
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.
- Nov 07, 2020
A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020