- 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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely see the genre opening up a lot more. I don't know if black people don't want to get into country music or what, but I feel like we're breaking down barriers.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reggae was always playing at home in East Ham when I was growing up. Loud music would be coming from the bedroom, and downstairs all you'd hear was the bass. My uncles had sound systems and we used to go to Jamaica a lot as a family.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020
He will go down as a legend along with Elvis and the Beatles and Michael Jackson. Bob Marley is right up there. He was a leader for reggae music - he really made it appeal to a world audience.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Garage has been the big influence in my life. It was the first music that I started MCing to and I really used to look up to Heartless Crew.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm definitely not a nerd... but maybe I'm a bit of a nerd when it comes to music and lyrics and things like that. Other than that, I'm definitley not a nerd. I wish I was, though.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grime don't mean nothing, we never called it grime. It's just a word someone associated with us. I wouldn't say all my music's grimy.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm naturally sort of a sad person, and that comes out in my music, but when I realized how many people were listening to it... I wanted to be a little more conscious about what I was putting out and what people were going to be taking from it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
- Lake
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Swan Lake' was my favourite piece of music when I was younger, and I never had a chance to skate to it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So vast is the shadow cast by the MGM production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' so indelible are its characterizations, so perfect its music, and so assured is its cinematic immortality, that most people think of it as 'The Original.' In fact, it isn't.
- Nov 07, 2020