- Language
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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
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
- Cleanse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
- Madness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I got into movies, the only way singers could be heard was to through playback singing in movies. Then gradually came the music companies promoting independent pop singers.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like when it comes to rap - like, real rap music - and knowing the pioneers of rap, I feel like there's no competition for me in the NBA. Other guys can rap, but they're not as invested or as deep into actual music as I am and always have been. I think that might be what the difference is. I'm more wanting to be an artist.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love music. In a lot of my downtime, I spend time listening to other people's music or other people's rhymes and writing my own.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020