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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.
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- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started traveling, performing, doing photo shoots and working on new music. At the same time, I was juggling homework and trying not to miss out on too many experiences during my junior and senior years - like prom and graduation.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like the grittiness of early Amon Tobin - I'm a huge fan of his old music, and I tried to borrow from it, not emulate it. I don't love my own original work.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get to listen and enjoy music that is partially mine. Maybe influenced and guided. I created some simple outlines, but ultimately, I'm hearing a derivative work.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
God bless Skrillex. I love the kid, but he puts out a new video, what, every four weeks? I'm like the Dos Equis guy. I don't normally do music videos, but when I do, I go big.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
EDM is, like... Event-Driven Marketing, I think, is the acronym there. It reminds me a lot of disco. That had some hang-time, like, 10, 15, 17 years tops... Not too many people are forward-thinking about electronic music. They're just kinda like, 'Now, now, now - do it, do it.'
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing goes full-circle with music.
- Boards
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very varied taste in music from Boards of Canada to Radiohead. So I just love making music and being in the studio.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody's all up on the EDM bandwagon now, because it's, like, another viable conduit for traditional pop music to ride for a bit so they can get out of their little stagnant pool and make a dance hit.
- Headphones
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020