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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been playing and singing music since I was three or four years old. I was playing guitar, playing the piano.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
- Profession
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music isn't only a profession.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.
- Nov 07, 2020
I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.
- Big Surprise
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think comparisons are very on the surface. If I sing, like, 'Park Bench People,' and there's kind of a social undertone, people will say I sound like Gil Scott-Heron. But for me, the more insightful comparison would be a Roberta Flack or Nina Simone - people who really mix different genres of music.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020