- Country
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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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- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
- Found
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
- Appalachian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020