Musician Quotes
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Now, as for this new breed of musicians with their 'ultrasonic' conservatory technique, I say: So What. Tell me a story from the heart of your soul and what your existence in this Universe is all about!
Woody Shaw
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When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
Mike Figgis
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It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone on to become musicians and artists in their own right who inspire me now.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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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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My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.
Sufjan Stevens
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I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
Robert Wyatt
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Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England Conservatory were indeed a gift -- he is a pianist with unlimited potential and a composer that makes my heart sing. I deeply feel that he is an important musician for the coming years.
Bob Brookmeyer
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The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much more difficult if you're trying to take something you've overdubbed alone on stage. But again, there are some benefits.
Steve Winwood Blind Faith
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I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.
Virgil Thomson
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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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Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.
William Butler Yeats
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I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do.
Sufjan Stevens
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I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.
Herbie Hancock
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As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.
Nick Zinner
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I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.
Bear McCreary
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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 just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.
Moby
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I am a rock & roll man, and therefore, a denim man. Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna - will inspire fashion. And we in turn will inspire them.
Renzo Rosso
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Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.
Mick Rock
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Everybody struggles with get tiring as a musician having to play the same songs over and over again on one level or another. That is why you're cast to write the best songs you can. It keeps it going for you. My old man used to tell me be careful what you write you might have to play it for the rest of your life. That is always a challenge and the best way to remedy it is to write.
Crosby Loggins
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You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
Brian Christian
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In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.
Robbie Robertson
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I consider myself a musician. I like to play everything.
John 5 LOSER