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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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- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I ever wanted to do is make music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.
- Essential Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in Nashville, and I don't know how many people there would call me country. I really started in punk and anti-folk, but one of the reasons I originally gravitated towards country music is because most of those songs only use three chords. That was the easiest place for me to start, but I'm always trying to expand what I do.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020