- Love
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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
There's a lot of music in my life, and I found it a very important part of my life.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I get too wound up in my chemistry, but if you play chamber music, it's impossible to think about chemistry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people think the orchestra is playing and the conductor doesn't do very much, but the conductor's the person that gives shape to the music, gets the phrasing, and if he has really fine musicians in solo spots, the question is does he try to help them phrase, or does he let them go?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
For fun, I love to play the drums... poorly. I have a band, a bunch of theater nerds - we got together, and we're like, 'Let's play rock music for three hours and never take breaks.' We call ourselves The U.S. Open.
- American Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.
- Oak
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020