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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

Our music is a get-up music. Get you up music, uplift your spirit. That's what I'm trying to give you.

Nov 07, 2020

Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.

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Nov 07, 2020

We've always said Psychic TV's music is the sum total of who's in it at the time.

Nov 07, 2020

There's a room in my house where my stereo, records, CDs, and books are housed. I spend a lot of time in that room, sitting in my chair beside the fireplace, reading and listening to music. Sometimes I just stand before the shelves and look at my books, because every single one of them means something to me.

Nov 07, 2020

Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.

Nov 07, 2020

I've bought clothes based on record covers. Particularly from the formative music that turned me onto it in the first place when I was a kid, with the Beatles and the Small Faces. A lot of those Sixties soul artists were in really sharp sharkskin or mohair suits, and Motown artists looked amazing.

Nov 07, 2020

Music that speaks of politics is less listened to than the music of partying, but it's still there.

Nov 07, 2020

Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.

Nov 07, 2020

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

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Nov 07, 2020

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

Nov 07, 2020

People see me as a theoretician, but my music is also seductive, even spiritual.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

Yeah, I've always wondered what it would be like to make music that's not nostalgic at all, and it's really, really hard for me to imagine.

Nov 07, 2020

I make all types of music. People wanna put me in a little box, and they get mad when I don't stay in there.

Nov 07, 2020

I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

Nov 07, 2020

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Nov 07, 2020

I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

Nov 07, 2020

How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.

Nov 07, 2020

If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

Nov 07, 2020

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

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Nov 07, 2020

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

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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