- 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
I've never been an artist that really got into fluff songs. I like songs that have substance to them. I think sometimes that may hurt me commercially a little bit. But I like to cut things that have the power to speak to people on an emotional level. That's the power of country music to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up very heavily involved in a United Methodist Youth organization. I grew up going to church camp for years. I ministered, and country music stole me away. It was just where my heart wound up. It's what I wanted to do.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got an opportunity to be on a tribute to the Rolling Stones in the late '90s and did a rockin' version of 'Paint It Black' - that's probably the biggest stretch of anything that I've personally done. I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, but I understand where my parameters are.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.
- Nov 07, 2020
I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not from a music family at all.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked music that has a darker vein to it. I come from such a safe upbringing - very stable, classic family, everything's nice and good - I was always looking for something different.
- Dancing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
- Apiece
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020