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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.
- Nov 07, 2020
I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or 'Take That.' And if you liked 'East 17', it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music.
- Rebellious
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.
- Only
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Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
- Empirically
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020