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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

You
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Nov 07, 2020

Canada does a really a phenomenal job of producing music, actors, and entertainers. If you look at the number of people we have in our country relative to the number of people that are prominent in the entertainment industry, it's pretty impressive.

Creative
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Nov 07, 2020

I've got more creative control when I do music.

Nov 07, 2020

When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.

Nov 07, 2020

The way it always starts with me making my music is I will never, ever start with the production first. It's always me at the piano, fresh on the day. I never come with anything prepared.

Nov 07, 2020

Music is like a medicine.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I certainly know that on our first tour of America in 1968, David Crosby came to see us backstage at the Fillmore East in New York, and I was very pleased to meet him from Buffalo Springfield and that kind of stuff. He didn't ask me anything about the music, but he said, 'Where'd you get your clothes, man?'

Nov 07, 2020

When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

You
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Nov 07, 2020

Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.

Nov 07, 2020

Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

Nov 07, 2020

As a producer putting up music, I wasn't dropping a project to do this much numbers or make this amount of money, I really just dropped a project for the streets and the culture of music.

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club where everyone is there to have a good time and celebrate not being at work or just being able to have fun. I love people dancing to my music as well; if I can make them dance I feel happy.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

Nov 07, 2020

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

Nov 07, 2020

The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.

Faith
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Nov 07, 2020

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.

Nov 07, 2020

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Nov 07, 2020

When I'm acting in TV or movies, I'm a character. But when I'm doing music, I'm Trevor Jackson.

Biggie
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Nov 07, 2020

I listen to a lot of Tupac and Biggie Smalls. Old school songs. Rick Ross. I listen to a guy ASAP Rocky. I like different kinds of music. I always have. It motivates me before games... A Tupac playlist or a Meek Mill playlist. It varies.

Nov 07, 2020

Garth Fundis is a song guy. He is in it for the right reasons; he's about the music. He doesn't ever try to talk you into recording something that you shouldn't. He gets it.

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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