- Freedom
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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
- Obstacles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped back and thought 'Why are you bitter? You can't just stand there like every other indie musician and criticize this so-called 'generic' music when you're not doing anything to challenge that.'
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't even listen to any music until I was 19, really. I just wanted to be famous. But I didn't say it to anyone because I was really embarrassed at the thought.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could draw up a list of about 30 artists who I apparently sound like. From Lady Gaga, to Katy Perry to Lana Del Rey. I don't know if it's because I'm versatile or because production affects how people judge music. I can't wait for a time I can just be classed as myself.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It was frustrating like I guess it's frustrating for everyone who is not fully employing their talents.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to Christian music.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday.
- Silence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody in my family plays music professionally, but I definitely grew up around the culture of when my parents got together, as well as a lot of eating and drinking going on, they would also sing - they sat around in a circle, and everyone had a party piece.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020