- Me
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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.
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- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album's style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal.
- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.
- Aretha
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn't the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020