- Born
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My 'Chili Palmer' was my mother. Her name is Carmen Milian, and she's my manager. Before getting into music, we actually educated ourselves, and I went to college for music as a business and learned the business side, and she read a lot of books.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Shelby Star' is going great. We shot a music video, and I'm building an app and some other things for the project.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge pop music lover. I do love the immediacy, the organic fever that happens when a pop track is so infectious.
- French People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people know Serge Gainsbourg's 'Histoire de Melody Nelson' album, but what's interesting is that in the early '90s, he actually went into a dark, weird phase that French people don't really like. They consider his music from that time weak. But for me, it's the best.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started to write music, I desperately wanted to relate to people. But when I became famous, I could relate less. I thought, 'Oh, am I trapped in my own creation?' I was really lonely.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an obsession with haters: the great mess of the Internet expressing itself. I love to type my name on Twitter and read everything. It's always enlightening to see what they hate about you: I'm not pretty enough to be on stage, or my music doesn't make any sense. It feels good to read that, like I'm heading in the right direction!
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is contagious and everywhere and democratic, and that's what drew me in. I was interested in acting and being a director, but one of the things that bored me about theatre was that it was not accessible to everyone.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don't have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020