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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
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
- Busy Working
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don't know about.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just don't let music genres define me.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Straight Outta Compton' was such a great movie, and obviously, I'm in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was amazing, and it was an incredible movie.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.
- Envied
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.
- Half Years
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- Nov 07, 2020