- People
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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.
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- Ambition
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ambition is we want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create, and if it takes them five years to sit down and make the album they want to make, they should be able to afford that. That's my goal.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think about music in the future, I don't make a distinction between what's radio, what used to be the music library, and so on.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
- Conducting
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020