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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of think that music in general is a sacred thing, and that's what music has kind of always been for me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' 'Silver Bells' and 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)' were all written by Jews.
- Christmas Album
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- Nov 07, 2020
The No. 1 best-selling Christmas album of all time is from Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, the Jewish smooth-jazz legend Kenny G. American Jews have always produced a lot of holiday music, just not Hanukkah music.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.
- Spiritual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It involves sensitivity, it involves humility, you know, and then also it's something which is higher than words.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.
- Nov 07, 2020
The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.
- Jewish
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020