- Doing
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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
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The acting part of me is not me. The music side is who I really am and what I want to talk about. It'll be hard for people to differentiate those different sides but I think it's possible. Once the music is out there, people will start to realize how serious I am about it rather than, 'Oh god, another actress making an album.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert - they write from the heart. But it's hard to find a country music lover in L.A. None of my friends really listen to it, and they hate getting in the car with me because I just blast Taylor Swift.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my friends hate my music. I have weird taste.
- Dedicate
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have a chunk of time that I can really dedicate to music, I really want to get into it. I want to do some really hard stuff and push myself.
- Great Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.
- Cecil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.
- Nov 07, 2020