- Everyone
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
- Flashy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.
- Art World
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.
- Concert
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe I was born for this, to tell people about the Lord. I just wanted to find the best way that I could do it, and music, God graced me to be able to do it, and that was the way that I chose to be effective and tell people that the Lord loves them.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020