- 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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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was almost on the verge of studying medicine. But then, I realised I would have to give up singing. That is when it dawned on me that I could have a career in music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I've come to realise how valuable my time is with my friends who work on the land or are builders or, you know, make music. Work in offices. Run shops.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the exception of maybe Vegas or Miami once or twice, other than that, it's all the same to me. I can't hear anything in the club with the loud music, so you're in there, and you're like, 'I can't hear you because of the loud music.' I hate that, yelling back and forth. And I don't drink, so it's kind of pointless.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.
- Nov 07, 2020
Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020