- Meaning
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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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- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to my mom and dad for giving me all this music. I don't really sing this as a singer, because I'm not a singer. But I wanted to do it for them.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Navy, you're around a lot of people from different parts of the country. They've got different accents, different upbringings. I learned to love country-western music.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's always so much more to be done in music. It's so vast.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020