- 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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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of like a folk singer mixed with soul, but I feel like if you really are a lover of hip-hop music, make the beat banging as possible and then put the message in so that people get the honey with the medicine.
- Christmas
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been doing music since sixth grade.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
- Beautiful Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020