- Cool
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I'm so bombarded and over-stimulated that I lose interest in the music. There has to be light and shade, and less stimulating moments. There has to be an arc to the show.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call it an album, which to me sounds, it's got more much of a connotation of a kind of a music single and an album collection.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020