- Mother
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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
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Dangerous' album has producers like Tiny, who to me is very special. Also, Luny Tunes, Nesty La Mente Maestra, Nelly La Arma Secreta, Haze, and El Ingeniero. I wanted to use everyone who makes music in Puerto Rico and beyond to have variety.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
- Nov 07, 2020
I really want my music to go mainstream.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.
- Nov 07, 2020
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
- Noise
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- Nov 07, 2020