- Just
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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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
- Hal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting because all I want to do is make music. I want to sit in my room, play the guitar, make beats, sing... And I have never made less music than when being a musician became my job.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I love more than anything in the entire world is making music. It's what I studied in school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ask me my influences, I always talk about Bjork and Beck because they're independent voices in the music industry.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020