- 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
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.
- Invention
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- Nov 07, 2020
The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and '90s music to Dave Matthews.
- Cries
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Celtic music and listening to it, but I just don't have the type of voice to sing it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make my music to express everything I feel is necessary to communicate at a given time. Through music, I can express myself with statements that are more nuanced and more contradictory than factual details.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that separates Sophie from the music I do for other people is that it's 100% written by me. In the past, I've written my songs and then asked friends if they could record the vocals. I didn't want to use my own voice, because other people have much better voices. I was hearing the music with a voice that I don't have.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pop-music video is one of the most powerful communication tools we have. Most people have access to a phone, and you can click a video and absorb it in three minutes. If it's potent enough, you can take in the message or have some sort of experience in multiple dimensions, the music with the image.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020