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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious.
- Causing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.
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- Nov 07, 2020