- Chance
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.
- Nov 07, 2020