- 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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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great. But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make magic, it's like there's no more magic - if the audience can just do it themselves, why are they going to bother?
- Glorification
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party. Instead, it started to become this electronic lifestyle which also involved the glorification of technology.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a naive quality in 1982 around technology and the start of video games. And that's like the start of electronic music - there was this statement and, ideologically, these things to fight for.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
- Noise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020