Musician Quotes
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I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.
Yngwie Johan Malmsteen
Alcatrazz
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The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
Greg Ginn
Black Flag
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Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.
Dan Bejar
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If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords.
Stuart Wilde
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I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.
Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night
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Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.
Bradford Cox
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If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey
Bananarama
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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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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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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.
Nat Hentoff
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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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There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.
Miroslav Vitous
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My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
Sandra Bullock
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Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.
Michel Gondry
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There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, I mean, it's a really vulnerable place to be in. It's a huge thing to do.
Ryan Adams
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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
