- Life
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to bring real music back but make it marketable and mainstream. To me, real music isn't everything being synthesized, computerized.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I needed to get out of Seattle. I had to just come into my own world, my own zone, and really appreciate me and my music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was seven, I saw 'Sister Act 2,' and I fell in love with the performing aspect of music.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a good mom and one day hopefully have a child of my own.
- Hotel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
- Orchestra
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music.
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creative industries, a source of optimism in recent years owing to, among other things, a resurgence on the world stage of British music, have come out foursquare against Brexit.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020