- Broader
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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
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead, of worrying if something will be a hit, bands need to go out and make good music, get a following, play live. That's how you make a career these days.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been created in America has been pretty much improvised... Whether it's hillbilly or rock n' roll for blues, it's basically jazz music... It's basically about another way of hearing what comes out of America.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is half-French, half-Malagasy, so I've been listening to African music, like Malian and Congolese music, since I was a child.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is like my secret garden. It's where I heal myself from every pain that I feel. It's like a therapy.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was nine, I was passing by a drum class and saw them playing and I was moved. That's why I started making music.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me to have the opportunity to learn the darbuka and the tabla in Dubai, it created my own thoughts for music.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul music culture, and not so much a French one.
- American Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the thing is I always listened to American music way more than French music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started making music, I wanted to enjoy it and make others enjoy it. But it's just music. I am not saving the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always playing with whatever I could get under my hands, making rhythm with it, which was natural for me, because my parents were listening to a lot of African music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moving to Dubai at age 9 and then the Congo, they were two completely opposite countries. But that brought me to music and taught me things that I never would have learned otherwise. And it was always about the rhythm in those two countries - that's why I love them.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020