Musician Quotes
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I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.
Michael Nyman -
When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
Billy Joel
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I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the music is strictly from the soul, strictly improvisational.
Cecil Williams -
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
Virginia Woolf -
I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
Cassandra Wilson -
I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.
Brian Joseph Burton Broken Bells -
I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.
Debbie Davies -
I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.
Charlemagne Palestine -
Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.
Ezra Koenig -
Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
My son is a professional musician now.
Steve Lukather Toto
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Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.
John Locke Nazareth -
Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.
Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace -
I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.
AraabMuzik -
I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
John Tesh -
I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.
Ryan Adams
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Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?
Shawn Fanning -
I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.
Jason Mraz