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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
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to blues to Indian music.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was making the music and writing the songs which reflected the emerging consciousness of my generation.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A young person coming up and saying, 'I absolutely love your music,' is very encouraging.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blues and jazz are such a root to music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad would always ask, 'How's the money?' but I was never interested. Millions came and went, stolen by the robbers in the music industry. But as someone said, 'You'll never be poor as long as you can pick up a guitar.'
- Players
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music translates again and again to younger generations of players because I broke all the rules, and they can break all the rules now, too.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is the power of you.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.
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- Nov 07, 2020