- Myself
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.
- Haunting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.
- Nov 07, 2020