- Great
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two have to go hand in hand - the atmosphere and the music. I actually get rather worried if I can't see the music first. There always needs to be a mood, a feeling, a story, even if it is abstract. There's got to be a narrative to guide things before they're even created.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.
- Effective Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I write music visually.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can be quite cynical. 'The Kills are too cool.' There's been an on-and-off relationship with the music press that loves us and then hates us then loves us again. I don't think any kind of press is reliable.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020