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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
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I have a lot of musician friends who I play with.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
- Contribution
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, 'You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.'
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.
- Compels
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020