- 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
- Clearest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music, in its clearest and simplest form, can be a catalyst to thought, but that's about it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've read some pretty harsh criticisms of my music, but some of them I agreed with and actually sat with me.
- Cage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had every major label in the world - I mean, any label that dealt with rap music wanted to sign me. I ended up going with Jive Records because I liked everything about 'em.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020