Musician Quotes
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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?
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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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At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
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I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.
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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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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.
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All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.
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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.
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I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.
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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.
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Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
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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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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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Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
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I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.
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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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Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
