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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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- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.
- Connected
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
- Nov 07, 2020