- Me
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.
- Different Names
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.
- Felt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, my music is part of me, and which is why it seems second nature, and my compositions are instinctive.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020