- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that people think of me in terms of Latin music and that's wonderful, that's my heritage, that's who I am, but there's so much more to me and my music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were having their baby.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
People tend to forget that celebrities are human beings. We live our lives. We try to do what we love, which is music. And to share it with everyone in our job usually is to entertain and to make people forget their troubles.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.
- Nov 07, 2020
I just play music, you know what I mean? That's what I want to spend my time talking about.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a fallacy that's been concocted by the music teachers' profession, to wit: that there's a certain sequence of events necessary in order to have the revealed truth about the way one produces a given effect on a given instrument.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music of that era is full of empty theatrical gestures, full of exhibitionism, and it has a worldly, hedonistic quality that simply turns me off.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020