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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.
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- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a country music singer and a motion picture actor, Tex Ritter, and I sort of had a normal upbringing, except dad would come down in full regalia with the boots and the guns and the hats, and the horse would eat with us. But other than that, it was pretty normal.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
- Convey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?
- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020