Musician Quotes
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I'm not a musician, I just play bass.
Bill Wyman
The Rolling Stones
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You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.
Richie Sambora
Bon Jovi
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.
Emma Stone
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I've always felt that I inherited an old soul, and I've tried to live my life with equality and balance. I do not, nor have I ever, considered myself anything any more or any less than a musician, and I cringe at the term 'rock star'. I suppose I'd like to be known as more than a hard rock guitarist. That was my purpose and ambition twenty years ago and there's been a lot of growth since.
Vivian Campbell
Def Leppard
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I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resulting from this union will not be the random conclusion of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of the same thought.
Arthur Honegger
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When I think of my own struggles as a musician, I'm most proud of the chances I took. My style not only allowed for the possibility of failure, it practically ensured it. But this approach gave me confidence.
Derrick Bostrom
Meat Puppets
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Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy.
Ray Stevens
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'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.
Ziggy Marley
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In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.
Emily Haines
Broken Social Scene
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I want to be treated like a musician.
Halsey
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Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you'll never make it, there's too much competition, it's a terrible business," etc. But my chorus teacher in high school said, "you've got what it takes to be a really good professional musician, you should consider it." That was an epiphany for me. So I thought, well, maybe I can help somebody, too.
Billy Joel
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Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.
Chester Bennington
Linkin Park
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Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.
Jerry Lee Lewis
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I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I'm not that type of musician where I can sit down at the piano and work out a song; I actually really enjoy that process of sitting with somebody and having nothing and then suddenly something starts appearing. You struggle with it, and then suddenly a song starts to appear. Then, you've got to try and muscle it - there's that word again - into something and you do. You tussle with it and play with it and roll around with it and suddenly, magically, something appears.
Dave Gahan
Depeche Mode
