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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.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs. Sounded cool to me and I never gave up an opportunity to work, especially with the possibility of it turning into a national commercial. Coolest job I did in that time.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
- Pretentious
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- Nov 07, 2020
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
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- Nov 07, 2020