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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church music between sips at my bottle, you know? I sat on the piano bench next to my mother. She was the church organist, so that music is deeply inside of me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the womb. That's why music appeals to people.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can't get caught up in the limousines and the chicks. The most important thing is the music.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm touched by rock n' roll. I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm touched by Jon Hendricks. I want some of my music to reflect that. And when I write, you're going to hear it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a wonderful tradition of jazz people getting on stage and jamming and finding some feeling for music with audiences who may be fresh. For others, it might be just like a comfortable shirt they've been wearing.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me... it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like... it's like church, man.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television show, going over to it, and there's Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert, and Annie Ross. It knocked me out of my socks, and I'm still in flight.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020