- 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
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're home, I don't listen to my own music at home.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
- Nov 07, 2020
You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm saying that people who are enmeshed in situations of subjugation and have to live, have to find ways to project their dignity as human beings - in spite of all the efforts of those around them to degrade them - I'm saying that this music is the manifestation of the dignity in the life that has always been present.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you think about musicians who are reading music, my contention has always been the energy that you're using deciphering what the symbol is is taking away from the maximum creative energy that you might have had if you understood that it's but a symbol.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz. But I never knew that it could really be a career. I didn't know any jazz singers. I never saw live jazz. I only heard these records.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.
- Gangster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020