- Enough Money
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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
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you travel on a bus with guys who love all kinds of music, you get exposed to some great stuff, man.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.
- Motivation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.
- Booking
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there.
- Nov 07, 2020
Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I view music as entertainment. When I'm on stage, I don't look at that as a platform for sharing ideology. Otherwise I'd be a zealot myself. That's why, when people ask me, 'Do you think you can change the world through your music?' I say, 'I doubt it.'
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a very early age, I was in tune with pop radio, and most of this listening was done driving. We had an old '67 or '65 Buick LeSabre, and whenever we would drive around, I would actually stick my head right against the speakers in the back and sing along to the music.
- Fieldwork
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- Nov 07, 2020