- 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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always found music inspired me in the studio to try to do new things. If someone comes out with a new album, it's like, 'Gosh, they've been working hard - so should I.'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in my mid-twenties, I was a copy editor at Doubleday, and for a brief period, it was my job to help shepherd Pat Conroy's 'Beach Music' into the world.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I present the Charlie Parker book, I do a call and response that works quite well. With the Thelonious Monk book, I play the music and work with kids in a group to create a color wheel and show how the wheel can be mapped on a 12-tone chromatic scale.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the heads of all the music companies had known about music and about Chris Rea fans, they wouldn't have worried about 'Stony Road.' My regular fans have always known that side of me.
- Nov 07, 2020
Music is a saviour for me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am in that unique little club where I went into music because I love music, not because I wanted to be rich and famous.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ambition, a long time ago, was to be a film music writer. A compromise then was to be the guy who wrote songs for a band and played slide guitar. Then the singer didn't turn up for an audition, and I was the only one who knew the words. That was it - bingo! Life took a different course.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is the music that I have always wanted to play: real, genuine guitar music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020