- Love
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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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- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I crank up the music, and I dance around the house.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me the visual is just as important as the music.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it.
- Speed
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my big passions in the offseason, or just when I get time off in general, is playing music, and I've been fortunate to be around people who are a lot more talented than I am.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
From his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020