- 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
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always looked askance at Pandora and Spotify, regarding both as a passive means of experiencing music; they feed you music they presume you will like, and eventually you like it.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main difference between listening to music on a computer and listening to music on vinyl or disc is not sound quality or even portability; it's that when you listen to music on a computer, you listen to music on the same instrument you use to acquire it.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.
- Existing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite frustrated by school and found solace in going to the drama studio, doing stupid voices, and being an idiot. I then went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama and signed with a great agent in my third year.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020