- 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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an American songbook guy, though I've got eclectic tastes. I really love the American songbook. I've taken up the ukulele, and so you can play 'Five Foot Two' and Hawaiian music, but you can also do some of the great tunes, like 'You Go to My Head,' 'I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry,' 'Taking a Chance on Love.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.
- American Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Ramones are the type of group where it took the world, like, 30 years to catch up with them. Because we were kind of breaking new ground, coming up with new ideas and different concepts which kind of blazed a trail for a whole new music scene, really.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mostly I listen to old-time music, some bluegrass, some Americana stuff, too many to name. But of the younger acts, there are The Freight Hoppers, who were big in the '90s, and The Foghorn Stringband from Oregon, and there's a lot of young string bands coming up now, basically punkers who play acoustic instruments forming new bands.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't just music in the Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music - it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different.
- Boogie
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
- Every Sunday
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- Nov 07, 2020