Bear McCreary Quotes

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

Bear McCreary

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• I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Father
  • Friend

• I'm just a musician and a record producer.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Musician
  • Just
  • Producer

• We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Master
  • Enlightenment

• I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Musician
  • Jazz
  • Instrument

• Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Living
  • Master
  • Slaves

• A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Speech
  • Master
  • Policies

• I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Artist
  • Person
  • Regret

• My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Learn

• Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Powerful
  • Acting
  • Revolution

• I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Always

• You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Men

• Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Artist
  • Master
  • Material

• If all you have is music, then you don't have music

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Music
  • Musician
  • Ifs

• I'm a spiritual musician, I think there has been enough political musicians and I think everything that can be said has been said about political, social things, you know, and there's still some more to be said but not much.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• I have learned that collaboration are everything to me. Music is a social thing. If there are no ears to hear it, it has no value. I have really loved getting input from other great musicians- like recording strings with my family or making weird synth sounds with tore nissen.

  Nanna Øland Fabricius
  • Great
  • Music
  • Family

• I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Art
  • Musician
  • Advancement

• Material success is rewarding and a lot of fun, but it's not the most important thing in my life because I know when this is all over, the Master isn't going to ask me how many things I owned or how many television shows I did. I think the questions will be, What did I do to make a difference? Did I learn to live with love in my heart?

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hard
  • Bitter
  • Master

• We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Master
  • Regardless
  • Salesman

• The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Feeling
  • Master
  • Completeness

• We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Home
  • Humanity
  • Musician

• I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.

  

  EMA
  • Failure
  • Musician
  • Worried

• I've also been with the same girl, Angie, since I was 15.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Girl
  • Angie

• I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

  

  Bear McCreary
  • Musician
  • Master
  • Turnaround