- First Love
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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
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.
- Disciplines
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peaky' has attracted a lot of attention from different disciplines in the arts. It was originally going to be a ballet, which is Ballet Rambert, and there is also a lot of music artists who offer their music to the show to be used on the soundtrack.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right after the keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Shuffle, I went backstage with one question in mind: What makes an iPod an iPod? By then - January 11, 2005 - I had staked my own claim to iPod expertise, having written a 'Newsweek' cover story about Apple's transformational music player, and I was writing a book on it.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite thing to do with my iPod was to shuffle my entire music collection and marvel at what songs came next. Sometimes the segues would be so perfect that it seemed a genius deejay was behind the wheel.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
- Country Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020