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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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- Comb
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.
- Persistence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.
- Grateful Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each other on to music. If somebody was listening to something that really caught their ear, they'd make sure that everybody else in the band heard it, and that came home for us in innumerable ways.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.
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I felt like it was the space that I could be the most authentic of anywhere because of how I grew up. Even though some of the songs and some of the texture wasn't what I like, I felt like country music was more authentic, in general, than anywhere else.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think that inside of country music now there's a very silent majority, and I represent that silent majority.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Mountain Pine, Arkansas. You get no more country than where I grew up. But I also grew up in the Napster / iTunes / Spotify/ iHeart Radio era, and so I see that everything is influenced by everything else, and that's what country music is now.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.
- Denigrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020