- Beauty
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.
- Nov 07, 2020
In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson.
- Difficulties
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the blue and asks me to play for them. It's almost as though there's a force somewhere which is saying 'no sittin' around, out you go!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020