Musician Quotes
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It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.
Steven Siro Vai
Alcatrazz
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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.
George Benson
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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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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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A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.
Kim Deal
The Breeders
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We as the band are passionate and energetic musicians. We have minimised the amount of self-criticism. Fear of death, total impatience and an unconcerned attitude to weary notions of good and bad is what's making us exceed speed limits. We're hijacking the holy inspiration from otherness, and we don't spoil it with personal aesthetic preferences. We are panthers and gazelles, not slugs and tortoises. Though it must be said that after turning forty I've started to resemble a sloth more and more.
Jussi Lehtisalo
Circle
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When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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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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Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.
Chester Bennington
Linkin Park
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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
Oscar Wilde
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I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.
Bryan Adams
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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 think we’re at the stage where
we’re not musicians but not idols
either. In a way, we also feel bad for being called idols
Kwon Ji-yong
Big Bang
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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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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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I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.
Jason Mraz
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What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.
Scott Joplin
