- Funny
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020