- Genre
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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
- Guthrie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.
- Demons
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find myself more affected by music the more I do it. Particularly when you're touring, and you're in the bus, and you're listening to loads of music. Life becomes far more dramatic, I guess - you're never in the same place; you're constantly meeting new people. You almost become more sensitized to music.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people stop being interested, it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd be making beats pretty much every day after school and it just grew and grew. I wasn't precious about my music. I just loved creating and putting stuff out there.
- Headphones
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always listening to music on headphones or working on something on my computer. I realised it wasn't healthy to be so reliant on creating stuff. I needed to be more sociable.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be set in music my whole life. I want to experience some of my youth not being Tom Misch, away from the expectations.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well my dad forced me into playing the violin when I was about three and it all started from there. I went to Suzuki for violin lessons, and you learn to play by ear instead of reading music.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has always enhanced our experience of life on earth by seeming to give us access to something larger than ourselves - the strings of the universe.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020