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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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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a deeply competitive person when it comes to music.
- Country Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Country music is who I really, really am deeply.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were country songs I connected to when there was pain, when I saw things my family were going through. It was my way of acknowledging I wasn't OK: music tapped on the door; I could work out these emotions by singing.
- Country Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The storytelling in country music is so powerful.
- Nov 07, 2020
I never went to music school.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints that they had there, they used black bands. Most musicians who amounted to anything, they would flock to Kansas City because that's the place where jobs were plentiful.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.
- Nov 07, 2020
Music is important.
- Big Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.
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- Nov 07, 2020