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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
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.
- Confused
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- Nov 07, 2020
In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can think, probably in my head, as a child I thought I always wanted to be soldier. So action music to me is something that I just absolutely love writing. So thankfully, I get to do Michael Bay movies.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a songwriter and he had a studio, and I was always surrounded by musicians and people creating music. I think I just always believed that that was a normal job, and people waking up at lunchtime and working until late at night, that to me always just was quite a normal job.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think I started off like many composers, just in different fields of music I was doing. I started doing a lot of commercials and jingles, and then that led to doing TV and then films and games and TV.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied percussion as a music student, and I didn't have the best of timing, so I could never make it as a professional, unfortunately.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.
- Big Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020