- 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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always admired Michael Jackson, and he's the one I get most inspiration from. I hope to become an artist like him as he won so many people's hearts and gave that love back to them through his music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in the first years of university, I fell in more with the visual arts crowd because it was more interesting than where music was.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more innocent.
- Before
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.
- Exclude
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very interested in the distance and the space between those two poles: very concrete, song-based stuff on the one hand and very improvisational, abstract stuff on the other. I don't see any reason music should exclude one or the other, and I think the pairing of them together makes for very interesting music in a lot of ways.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like everybody else, I love a good pop song. You know, there's nothing like it. I also just really like music that goes off on extended forays of extrapolation into different areas. So it's kind of nice to be able to move between those two poles.
- Celebrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to have endless discussions with journalists about that: 'Why are you calling it noise? It's not noise, it's music,' and make references to everybody from John Cage to whoever.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020