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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just wanted to release an album of piano music for music's sake. I'm not expecting to sell millions of albums. It's was just nice to be able to sit down at an acoustic piano and make some music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.
- Nov 07, 2020
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I work much the same way I always have. I'm trying to interpret something emotionally visually. I'm reading the brief or article, or listening to the music, and deciding where that sends me, and what would it look like.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.
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- Nov 07, 2020