- I Can
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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
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care.
- Human Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was some kind of a big American song that I wanted to write, which would be a conclusion for my show and bring all the songs home, which it still does. I can go anywhere I want with American music and come home to that. And it all makes sense.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.
- Hard Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020