- Enlargement
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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
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think that one of the best effects the Internet has had on music is that it's allowed these false walls between different music communities to vaporize. We can see that this is a big, complex, interconnected web.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few things I've noticed about myself as a listener, and the music that I relate to and the music that's continued to mean something to me since I was a little kid or a teenager, is that they're songs that tell stories and songs that come from a place of experience.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first heard Bjork's music, I felt like I was a similar-minded thinker, both harmonically and melodically. She takes those things that you naturally assume to be opposite because they're presented that way most of the time, and the way she twines them together is so beautiful. To be able to do that is so powerful.
- Different Genres
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Stillness', I don't think I appreciated how very codified all the different genres were in radio formats and the various constituencies of the culture. But music is music, too.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to music, I am a dictator. Making a Dirty Projectors record come to life is like making a movie; I'm the one that makes the picture, and then we all figure out how to realise it.
- Contributing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the creative industries have been deskilled by these really powerful ideologies of punk in music and Warhol in the visual arts. I think it would be great for us collectively to ask whether it's had a negative or positive effect in contributing imaginative stuff to our culture.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I first saw 'Guided by Voices'; those earlier recordings are so deconstructed, kind of like four-track music, and so artful in their collage and in their weird fragility.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What appeals to me about 'Blind Willie' is just how sparse that music is. Just this idea - the grain of it, the rawness of it and the simplicity of it. The directness of the language.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like to put music and art up against the dehumanizing character of commerce and business corporations.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the touring on Bitte, looking back on all that stuff, I feel really proud of having written that music and of us for having really played awesomely on those tours.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were to regard them as poetry, it would be bad, embarrassing, confessional poetry - a lot of the lyrics I love.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020