- 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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.
- Nov 07, 2020
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not interested in stirring anybody up through music. If you're going to stir people up, it has to be a thought process that has nothing to do with music. I see music as having to do with an internal thing. Something that stirs you up is external.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think music should be played anywhere near politics. The two don't go together.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My views on music, and life in general, are completely out of step with everything that's going on. I've always been out of step. The only thing that interests me is history, reviewing the past and making something out of it.
- Bad Taste
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to do with. He's dead now, so I guess I can't beat that horse any more. It left a very bad taste in my mouth, so I just went on about my business doing what I do and not involving myself with record companies, except for distribution.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020