- 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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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you've contributed to the zeitgeist in some way, and that's just an amazing feeling.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've definitely received a lot of support in Nashville; it's a huge music town. I like country music. Like any genre I'm largely unfamiliar with, there are elements I really enjoy and elements that go over my head.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wrote music for the mainstream.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing up was John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. It's music that feels like home to me.
- Physical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blues is a very physical music.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel my duty is to make music.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always eager to make new music.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.
- Exhilarating
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing grand orchestral music in a public place is exhilarating in a way that hearing popular music never can be, if only because, in a popular music age, a full orchestra is less familiar to our ears.
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- Nov 07, 2020