- 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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- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.
- Coupled
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- Nov 07, 2020
With seven boys and one sister, there was always a lot of music in the house. A few of my brothers were playing instruments, so it was from hearing that, coupled with discovering early rock, which triggered me to pick up a guitar and try to pick out the notes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard people say all our music sounds the same, but it's usually just the people who don't like us who say it.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.
- Punk
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has as many roles as people make it.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.
- Art Forms
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make music from my heart and will continue to do so.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has no language. That's something I've come to believe in even more ever since 'Kolaveri Di' happened. I don't deliberately make separate Tamil, Hindi, or Telugu tracks.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020