Musicians Quotes
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I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.
John Corabi
Mötley Crüe
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As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.
Blake Judd
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Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing part of whatever is wrong in society, and I think it's important for us to continue to do that, and I don't see enough of it today.
George Duke
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I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.
Sean Kingston
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There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
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An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.
Gary Hoey
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There are so many great players walking the planet but it is rare to find musicians that can live life together in a way that isn't ego centric. For whatever reason, musicians are just bizarrely composed humans. I think I'm living in the middle of a miracle.
David Wallace Crowder
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Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.
Eric Weiner
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He is smitten on the brain, -he reads and writes verses! I caught him in the act! Fools might say he was inspired; but I know it is the first and worst symptom of lunacy. All other maniacs have lucid intervals; some are curable; but the madness of poets, dogs, and musicians, is past hope. Earth possesses no remedy, science no cure.
Edward John Trelawny
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On my mom's side, the Jewish side of the family, I come from a family of musicians who are pianists, so I've always loved cultural expression.
Eric Garcetti
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
Billy Joel
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I make sounds while all these young musicians make jam, I make good sounds but they are always jamming, they don’t make good sound, they just jam.
Majek Fashek
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I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they do something really specific that is hard to emulate or re-create digitally.
Dave Grohl
Nirvana
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The writer must resist this temptation to quote and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for us musicians if, arrived at a given emotional crisis in our work, we could simply stick in a few bars of Brahms or Schubert. Indeed many composers have no hesitation in so doing. But I have never heard the practice defended; possibly because that hideous symbol of petty larceny, the inverted comma, cannot well be worked into a musical score.
Ethel Smyth
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I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment.
Jeff Coffin
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
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Many of the musicians have their own plans, They must be given a chance.
Jesús "Aguaje" Ramos
Buena Vista Social Club
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'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!
Dave Grohl
Nirvana
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Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.
Charles Gounod
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I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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I think every physiotherapist will tell you that it's not a very good idea, and there are many musicians in the metal scene who have suffered severe damage - like, the guitar player from Iced Earth, Jon Schaffer, had severe neck problems due to headbanging.
Floor Jansen
Nightwish
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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes it down, so there's one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there's another transmission loss. So he's involved with three information losses. Whereas what I nearly always do is work directly to the sound if it doesn't sound right. So there's a continuous loop going on.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
