- 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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you go to gym and exercise to music? Before Chubby Checker, that never happened.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in a crazy business. The music industry is really tough, and I fight for my life. I just want to make everybody happy.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only difference between The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, and Chubby Checker is that they get their music played on the radio.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is my greatest regret - that my music is not being played, and more people aren't seeing Chubby Checker. That's very painful for me. Many nights, I have tears in my eyes about that.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, I feel it might be ill-mannered to try and top myself. The music I play is a ritual. Something that matters to people in a special way. I wouldn't want to interfere with that.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I directed my music to the teen-agers. I was 30 years old when I did 'Maybellene.' My school days had long been over when I did 'School Day,' but I was thinking of them.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldn't play, they could sing.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020