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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone through and what I am thinking. I wrote about my family, friends and boys, of course, and about life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think about the success that I've had - I've had a lot of success with music - but I always look at it like it's a new day.
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- Nov 07, 2020