Musician Quotes
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I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.
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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.
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I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.
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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.
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I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.
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I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.
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Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
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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.
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I guess if you’re a musician the way you think and feel is eventually going to come out of you. I like so many styles of music that it just made sense to try to synthesize all of them.
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Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.
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I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.
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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.
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There is something embarrassing about asking for money, but if I hadn't done that, I would have not continued to be a professional musician.
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If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.
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The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their music.
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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.
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I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don't see an end in sight.
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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.
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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?
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I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
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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.
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I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.
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Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
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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.
