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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
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that's the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn't made it more popular.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music kind of kidnapped me for a while.
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Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people know my music but will never read my books.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.
- Nov 07, 2020
We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.
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- Nov 07, 2020