Musician Quotes
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.
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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.
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The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.
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I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
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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.
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I just consider myself lucky that I've been a musician this long and not had to find another job.
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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.
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I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.
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I'm not a musician, I just play bass.
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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.
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I feel like I'm struggling now, and nearly every musician I know feels that way - even the most successful ones. I realize that I'm very lucky, but I still feel like I could be doing so much better.
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I'm a spiritual musician, I think there has been enough political musicians and I think everything that can be said has been said about political, social things, you know, and there's still some more to be said but not much.
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At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way my father could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.
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The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.
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I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he's an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so I have so many questions about that.
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Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.
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I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through.
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Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
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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.
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In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.
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Learning how to record has been super empowering for me, because I spent so many years going into the studio and watching other people do it. I guess a lot of musicians have gone through this because now recording is really available for everybody.
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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.
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When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.
