Musician Quotes
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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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I like to be a musician and also just be a very regular person and blend in. I think these people that are famous for being famous are probably miserable because everything is based on how well they're doing in social media and so forth.
Nick Hexum
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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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At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
Herbie Hancock
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The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.
Lewis Capaldi
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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
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What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?
Itay Talgam
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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
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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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Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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.
Southside Johnny
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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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If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.
Shinichi Suzuki
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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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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.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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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.
Ezra Furman
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Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.
Tommy Chong
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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.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being an observant Jew, but in a conceptual way, for me, they go together real well.
Ezra Furman
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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.
Sun Ra
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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
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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.
Herbie Hancock
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Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
Herbie Hancock