- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.
- Chopin
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
- Goth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soundtrack for 'Hemlock Grove' got me into all this goth folk gypsy music like the Dead Brothers.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
- Nov 07, 2020
I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.
- Entertainment Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020