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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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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tracks.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A really good poem is full of music.
- Evident
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- Nov 07, 2020
The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in the first rehearsal.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox.
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- Nov 07, 2020