- Great
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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
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
- Nov 07, 2020
Rock music is niche.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
- Ghetto
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- Nov 07, 2020
As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want things that address their everyday reality, and that goes for stuff that isn't political - with singer-songwriter music, people want things that touch them.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just make music based on what I believe.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Either I'm really into the organizing, or I'm really into the music. As I've been going, I've been able to figure out ways to even it out a little more.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my music to be not only representative of other people's lives but also contributing something to the struggle that people are going through.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020