- 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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- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we made that album with Gary Moore, I was still kind of searching for the right direction for myself. Although the music is quite good the direction was like a box of fireworks that caught light all at the same time.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The less people that are on the stage, there's more drama. You start living the music with each individual. When you see a band with ten people on stage, just a huge ensemble, you don't know who's doing what.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what they really represented was, they'd come from this age of shared music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progressive music probably wouldn't even really exist if not for the people of the United States having picked up on it and nurtured it in the way they did. It really is an American form of music in the sense that it was nurtured here. So it belongs here. It has become part of the fabric of American musical culture.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020