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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.
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- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first music that came to my ear was gospel... I used to sing 'Amazing Grace' with a very strong southern accent and a vibrato already at five years old.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 'South Pacific.' It's got beautiful music. But there have been so many, you know, renditions of this in high school or college productions.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020