Musicians Quotes
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Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.
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Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.
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Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.
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I'm a great believer that actors are very similar to session musicians. You wouldn't ask a session musician, 'How do you play jazz,' and then, 'How do you play classical?' They just do it, because if they don't do it, they don't eat.
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There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.
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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
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The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.
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We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
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Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.
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If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.
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It's been a good ride. Queen is the train that never stops, I think.
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I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
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Worship the music, not the musicians.
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The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.
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We traveled with a lot of these bands and got to know them personally. It's a real good comradery between musicians…traveling together, you can relate to each other.
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It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.
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What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
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A lot of people still don't realize that, before Rascal Flatts, I was in a Christian band for four or five years, and I had the opportunity to work with some of the greatest pop musicians and producers in L.A. I learned a lot from Peter Wolf; he was one of my heroes growing up in the '80s. He was a producer of a lot legendary pop music.
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Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.
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Dimmu Borgir is always proud to advertise its member shifts. It’s a Norwegian thing. It’s a small community and good musicians are hard to find. For Dimmu, it’s a curse. I think there’s been 15 people in and out of the band. That’s the thing, I think. Dimmu Borgir is stronger and moving in the right direction with every new member.
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Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.
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Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians.
