Musician Quotes
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For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Howie Epstein was a kind, patient, and extremely talented musician. He took two years out of his life and dedicated his undivided attention to the making of two of my records. Those records changed my life thanks to Howie.
John Prine
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I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.
Brian Christian
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I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.
David Bowie
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Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
Celia Thaxter
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Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.
Miriam Makeba
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I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.
Nick Cannon
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I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.
Dolly Parton
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Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one.
Rick Savage Def Leppard
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A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. You know it when you hear it.
Michael Jackson
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In my view a jazz musician is a great musician
Michael Parkinson
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One thing about Kurt Cobain is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him.
Brett Morgen
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In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.
Minka Kelly
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David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.
Ethan Suplee
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I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.
Herbie Hancock
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Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.
Carlos Alomar
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Your development as a musician will come to an eventual standtill if you do not develop yourself as a human being. Only by having a creative, expansive and inspiring life can you create creative, expansive and inspiring music.
Carl Orr
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I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.
Sun Ra
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I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.
Nina Hagen
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Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
Herbie Hancock
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I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards. Is it really entertaining for me to get up there and crack a few weak jokes and force people to laugh because I'm Michael Jackson, when I know in my heart that I'm not funny?
Michael Jackson