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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 Nov 07, 2020

Nov 07, 2020

A painting lets us know how somebody literally saw things. A piece of music is another language that transmits a whole wealth of emotion and wordless experience. But writing is special in the way at allows us to temporarily enter another person's world, to step outside the boundaries of our own time and space.

Nov 07, 2020

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.

Walk
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Nov 07, 2020

I think people are tired of fake music, man. And there's a lot of it. Technology has reached the point where any boob can walk into a studio and with a little AutoTuning you can have a hit song. I think it's pathetic.

Mom
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Nov 07, 2020

Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.

Nov 07, 2020

Back in the day, prior to rock and roll, music halls, concert venues were segregated if they allowed black people in at all. You know, there were ropes that went around the sitting sections with signs hanging that would say, 'Sitting for white patrons only,' or 'Colored sitting only.'

Beauty
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Nov 07, 2020

That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz.

Nov 07, 2020

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

Nov 07, 2020

Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

You
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Nov 07, 2020

'Dear Mama' is my favorite song from Tupac, man. It touches you, and I think that that's the most important thing with music.

Nov 07, 2020

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

Nov 07, 2020

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

Nov 07, 2020

I like that the sight of me can make people happy. That's nice innit? I like that people like my music. I like that you get perks sometimes. Sometimes people treat you better, but through that there's the opposite as well.

Nov 07, 2020

Longevity has a lot to do with me continuously nonstop putting music on the shelf, and making myself be the face of the Bay, and continuing to carry the Bay on my back for many moons, you know.

Business
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Nov 07, 2020

People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.

History
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Nov 07, 2020

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

Nov 07, 2020

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

Nov 07, 2020

Radio isn't just a jukebox for music anymore because you can get music anywhere.

Nov 07, 2020

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

There's also a critical note about artists becoming too exclusive, echoing concerns raised in documentary work about self-image and audience. See Food Quotes and Dad Quotes for more varied reading.

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