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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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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
- Art Forms
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.
- Lyrics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they're always embedded in the greater film. They are mediated through the work of so many other people: the director directs, the lighter sets the scene, the editors edit, the music gets put to it.
- Half The Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
Makeup is where my career is going, but I would love to also indulge in music. It's still one of my absolute favorite things in the world.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to do a video with Harry Styles and sit with him and talk about, like, his music and One Direction and everything he has going on and all his amazing songs that have been coming out.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020