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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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
- Folk Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
- Change The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music can't change the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to listen to my iPod and also play music. I've been doing percussion since I was eight or nine. Rhythm is crucial in long jump but also in life.
- Distasteful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely new genre of music. Sometimes their exploits were distasteful to people, but they left behind an enormous body of work that endures.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.
- Country Music
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- Nov 07, 2020