- Me
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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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- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.
- Collaborating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the exhausting thing about touring is the sitting around, which is why working on my concert music is really great - and also seeing concerts and seeing friends and, whenever possible, getting out to see a museum.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a composer of concert music, 40 is actually very young. But for a rock musician, 40 is almost past due, where you think of rock music as really part of more youth-oriented culture.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got this diverse education, growing up in classical music and existing between that and music that is more visceral, so for sure, I've always been interested in music from other cultures.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going to surprise you. We look for these subversive moments in songs.
- Contemporary Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a kind of adventure- and risk-seeking audience in classical contemporary music that is really empowering and part of what draws me to it. The people that come to these concerts are open-minded and curious.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying classical guitar very seriously.
- DNA
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my brother. But I was always drawn back into classical music.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is much more immediate access to creative music through online communities and blogs which have touched all corners of the music world including contemporary classical.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Boxer,' we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn't really worry about what the expectation was.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020