Musician Quotes
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I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
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The raw and natural sounds of Aero music don't subtract from it's beauty, instead it creates a rich soundscape for the musician to create within.
Jim O'Rourke
Sonic Youth
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Because I was a chemistry student and was never supposed to be a musician, I always felt like I was an outsider looking at music going "Why is this interesting to me? Why should I be doing this?" and I never felt like I was a natural musician. It came into my life, kind of, as a conceptual problem and I think all my pieces are, in a way, looking at some issue and sometimes veering toward an inside baseball model of classical music.
David Lang
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My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.
Blake Judd
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Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.
Henry Louis Gates
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It's crazy to think of myself as a musician. It's ridiculous that I get to do it, and I don't necessarily mean music. Getting to do something you really enjoy as a job is an incredible privilege, I think. I still don't really feel like a musician outside of the actual music.
Ben Rector
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I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.
Charlemagne Palestine
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My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.
Reeve Carney
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If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just like burst into a monologue. Your only exercise is when you're in prep or you're working.
Winona Ryder
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Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan Franklin. He's an incredible musician and producer. We write so well together... It's been a really cool experience.
Sasha Pieterse
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Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
Wynton Marsalis
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For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."
Alan Licht
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Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.
Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night
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It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.
Christopher Bollen
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I have been a musician for a long time as you reminded me earlier, haha. I have a lot of influences and experiences. Every time I start to play it’s a total synthesis of everything I have ever heard or played. There are three musicians that have influenced me more than anyone else, Herbie Hancock, Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix
Roger O'Donnell
The Cure
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It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.
Chilly Gonzales
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I like the communication and trust that comes from a long-term relationship. When you really know people as musicians and as people, you feel you can really count on them. That frees you to take more chances and ... it takes the music to a higher level. It translates into a better product for audiences. There are two levels to these relationships. The first level is being with guys for the first few years, you're getting used to guys - he's got this to offer, he's got that to offer, I don't like this, I do like this. You both praise them and are critical as you get to know one another.
Dave Liebman
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A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.
William Blake
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The older I get, the more I realize I'm becoming people's role models and that's freaky to me. That's not what you intend to do when you set out to be a musician, to be a little 14-year-old's role model.
Ingrid Michaelson
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I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind of a bit of a musician, but I've often doubted my musical ear. If someone sings me a melody, I have to improvise on that melody, because I can't retain the information they've given me. That's why I still practise today, I suppose, because I still feel inadequate.
Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night
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If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Once I tried to find myself as a musician and a composer, I went back and saw that there was something special about Puerto Rican music. I knew that before, but had never sat down and thought about it. The more I learned about it, the more it found its way into the music I was writing.
Miguel Zenon
