- 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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- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?
- Jamming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived in N.Y. and L.A. for many years, but I still gravitate to New Orleans - it's so unique and so European. There's nothing else like it in the country. It has its own music, its own food, its own style and its own way of life.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
- Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020