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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.
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- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not trying to compete with any other revival soul acts. It's just Leon Bridges, a kid from Fort Worth trying to be himself and give people hope. It's great music to dance to and just love.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
- Reflection
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You won't find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don't hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West. So the paparazzi leave me alone, which means that I can do my shows, write music and then live a normal life.
- Cassette
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my second No. 1, my record company, Warner Brothers, gave me a beautiful present - quite unique at the time - one of the very first Sony stereos which had speaker and radio included so I could record the radio and build up cassette tapes of music, gospel singing, adverts, evangelists.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've found an extraordinary thing happens where I flash an entire finished song. I could be walking along, say over that bridge, and I see and hear the whole thing, words and music.
- Contender
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always believed that there is no age factor to this music business. You are only as old as you feel and basically you can be a contender at any time.
- Nov 07, 2020