- Creativity
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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
- Stars
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time when pop music and rock music were really reaching for the stars and were not ashamed to be experimental. You think of a song like 'Shout' by Tears for Fears. That's a massive global No. 1 hit, and yet the subject matter is very dark.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted people to say that our music sounds like Porcupine Tree, not that it sounds like King Crimson.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.
- Nov 07, 2020
I loved disco music, and I still count Donna Summer as one of my favorites of all time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a very young kid, the first music that really turned me on was a new wave of British heavy metal - big, dumb rock music. There was a band called Diamond Head - they were basically the band that inspired Metallica. But I also liked bands like Saxon and Iron Maiden.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that's what helps me get to an emotional place.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're 14, 15, and you get together and start making a noise, it is the world opening up. You have that indestructible feeling when you're young. But your ambitions when you are 13 are different when you're 25. By that time, your ambition isn't to be a star anymore; it's to make a living doing music.
- Classical Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a couple of things I do to clear my head when I need it. The first is exercise, the kind of exercise that makes me lie on the floor afterward gasping for breath and wonder if I'm actually going to be able to breathe enough to not die. The other one is playing music.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional fervor. So in the ideal exchange between me and my listeners, they wouldn't 'figure out' my music. They would feel their pulse racing and the hair standing up on the backs of their necks.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020