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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had really bad grades in high school and didn't want to go to college, and my dad said, 'Why don't you move to L.A. or New York and pursue music? You've always been good at it.' It was the first thing that made sense to me and... It was the right move.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'I Get Around' came on one day. I'd never heard the Beach Boys before. The sound was so fresh to me. That was the first time when I truly was gripped by the power of music. It opened my eyes to the heights that music can achieve.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Cleveland, music was always a big part of my life. That's really where I cut my teeth.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make music for everyone. I'm not trying to start a super exclusive group. I don't want a clique of people where you have to wear a certain type of clothes to come to our shows, or you have to be the ages of this and this.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is the great equalizer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand. We had all these sounds always going. We never had somber music - always upbeat.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one.
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- Nov 07, 2020