Musicians Quotes
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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 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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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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It wouldn't be unusual for dad to call on Jim and Steve to play if his regular musicians couldn't show.
Rodney Terence "Rod" Argent Argent
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When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there's a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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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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Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
Cassandra Wilson
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I have been blessed to work for so many years with great musicians. That's my joke with my manager: that I'm addicted to musicians.
Kathy Mattea
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And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.
Kinky Friedman
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There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.
Juan Campodónico Bajofondo
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Musicians are not so concerned with language.
Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
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There are so many different musicians I look up to for different reasons - from hip-hop to rock to pop. Some are Alanis Morissette, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Beyonce, Lil Wayne.
Manika
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I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.
Alicia Keys
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There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.
Mike McCready Pearl Jam
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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
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.
Billy Joel
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I am a Jew, Israel is a Jewish state. . . . Israel’s case is my case, Israel’s enemies are my enemies, and I do not want to be spared the troubles which Israeli musicians encounter when they represent the Jewish state beyond its borders.
Evgeny Kissin
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Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
TONY Wilson Musician Hot Chocolate
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.
Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
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I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
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The Doors were never that good as musicians.
Ray Manzarek The Doors