- Myself
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would like to come to my concerts, I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that, too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like Madonna's music but not her movies. She should stick to what she is good at.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still a businessman. But what I do for my primary living and what is my life is music, and that will never change.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other music that 'Ride The Lightning' led me to discover was to start really kind of sinking my teeth into some of the thrash of the era that I literally had no exposure to - whether it was Slayer, whether it was Testament, whether it was Megadeth. It was the opening of a doorway, for me, to a whole new palette of music.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.
- Great Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music.
- American Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020