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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Phil and I started out, everyone hated rock n' roll. The record companies didn't like it at all - felt it was an unnecessary evil. And the press: interviewers were always older than us, and they let you know they didn't like your music, they were just doing the interview because it was their job.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing I was any good at was music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a full-time musician back before I had my son, it was sort of too much 'me' all the time. I felt like a bit of a narcissist, always doing just my art - even though I feel like artists are doing a service as well. I needed something a little more literal, instead of writing music and hoping people enjoyed it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up always around music through my father - I would play in music studios with him as I was growing up - and my high school, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I always experimented with electronic music in the past, I wasn't invested in that sound. My heart has always been in folk. That's my home.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was such a music fan that the only way to really hang out with him was to sit in a room and listen to music.
- Nov 07, 2020