- Myself
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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
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think my vocals demand effects. I like reverb to a certain extent, but I don't want to hide my voice. I like stripped-down vocals, but I also like crazy, powerful, doubled vocals like in dance or electronic music.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an advocate for women to become more aware of the different positions in the music industry.
- Dynamics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love rock music, dance music, so it depends on my mood. But I mainly listen to dance music before going out on court.
- Geoffrey
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- Nov 07, 2020
This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political significance.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago, I feel, is a microcosm for the segregated, violent environment that is America. I try to not only speak about these things in music, but also try to address these things in real life tangibly with action.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I collaborated with so many people from Chicago - so many Black people, young Black women organizations like BYP100 and Assata's Daughters. Just being out there, I saw what a community mobilizing can accomplish in terms of freedom and how music and my words in my music can play a significant part in that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in my real life.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really make music from the heart.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020