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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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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no such thing. There's rap, and there's music.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I genre-hop quite a lot. I love manipulating genre and deconstructing it and making it irrelevant. Genreless music is great because it means you get to write in any genre that you like.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.
- Nov 07, 2020
My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I'm doing the right thing.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't do myself any favours. I would be resentful of my own ideas even before I'd said them out loud. But music was always the most consistent and peaceful thing for me. So I taught myself to be my harshest critic rather than just a mean voice in the back of my head.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from the music around me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get with your PC.
- Drum Set
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
- Expect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't even expect myself to do music.
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- Nov 07, 2020