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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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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working out gives me the opportunity to let go and listen to my music; it's a big stress reliever.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music inspires me.
- Floors
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of Stockholm, and my mom was very active with directing theater. So I basically grew up at the theater on the floors of the shows, so I was really surrounded with music at a young age.
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- Nov 07, 2020