- Me
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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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- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make music until I die.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience.
- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like, a lot of times, you make music, and you don't really understand why until with hindsight.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that might help me look people in the eye. But at the same time, I'm reaching out, in a way.
- Communicative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because, maybe in their head, what that means is that they're making it for someone who they don't think is real. Their audience isn't real. But it's still a communicative act. It's still an outward manifestation of longing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's a really soft piece of music, and then you're hit by a painful explosive sound, your brain does this funny somersault trying to make sense of why this happened. And at that very moment, your brain is malleable.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love music.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play the piano and write music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've started my own record label - Jeepney Music - and I want to put out my own stuff and also stuff by other Filipino artists.
- Nov 07, 2020