- 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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- Collaborating
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?
- Expressing
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- Nov 07, 2020
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That's when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
- End Result
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.
- Nov 07, 2020
Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively. We thought that's kind of strange, because music is full of life! We thought we could break through that barrier with theater and comedy elements.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo: A Little Nightmare Music' has a history that goes back five years. I can say that this is the most successful project that we have ever done.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is interesting that our biggest fans are the greatest names of the classical music scene, such as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. They even make guest appearances in our concerts occasionally.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020