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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
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.
- Great Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
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- Nov 07, 2020