- 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
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always write music if I'm feeling a bit rubbish and I don't know how to get over or through something.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I set out to make music people enjoy, but it is really cool that it is helping people get through.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is a huge music and vinyl fan.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is an escape for me.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out really strong and hopefully good emotional reactions in people.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.
- Harmony
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of those artists that doesn't actually hate my old hits. I love Boston music. I really like 'More than a Feeling.' After playing it to myself in a basement for such a long time, I'm happy to do it out on stage.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
- Beautiful Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020