- Life
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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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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Yes' music is kind of on its own out there, and it goes through different chapters, and that involves different people. I don't think it's a case of 'any year is better than any other.' They can all co-exist quite comfortably.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never into smart college boy music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Pagan Day' was Alex Fergusson's idea. It was him that encouraged me to start making music again and start Psychic TV.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.
- Psychedelic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based, or to be discovered in one of the infinite-though-no-longer-thriving alternative scenes, i.e. theater, music, dance, vaudeville, art, drag, or, in those of the greatest egos, to be 'the next Andy Warhol.'
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020