Musician Quotes
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
David Bowie -
I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who watches those shows? And whoever does I don't think my music would speak to those people. I don't even want those people to hear what I'm doing.
Sufjan Stevens
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The reason I decided to become a musician is because it seemed better then getting a job at the time, when I was 10.
Nigel Pulsford Bush -
I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.
Nick Cannon -
In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.
Robbie Robertson -
From an early age, my intuition was that I would be a musician.
Michael Bacon -
He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.
Tom Hayden -
My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.
Tommy Bolin
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It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
Herbie Hancock -
I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.
Herbie Hancock -
A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.
Herbie Hancock -
I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.
Harry Connick, Jr. -
Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.
Carlos Alomar -
I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
Cecilia Bartoli
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I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.
Evelyn Glennie -
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 -
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 -
If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.
Shinichi Suzuki -
Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.
Herbie Hancock -
I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.
Sun Ra
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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 -
Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
Herbie Hancock -
I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond what they know, go into unknown territory and explore. It's made a difference to me and the decisions that I've made over the years about how to approach a project in this music.
Herbie Hancock -
I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.
Herbie Hancock