Musician Quotes
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.
Dr. John
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Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.
Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night
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These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look.
Ry Cooder
Buena Vista Social Club
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I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing it and just intellectualizing it on any level. I just want to speak from the subconscious, which knows way more about me than my intellectual side will ever know. Once I start doing the arrangements - what I call the architecture of the song - that has a lot of thought put into it.
Omar Alfredo Rodríguez-López
At the Drive-In
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I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.
Evelyn Glennie
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... we weren't very professional; she could have gone to almost any town and put together a smoother ensemble, but we were pioneers, and professional musicians probably wouldn't have come up with what we did ... professional musicians probably wouldn't have given Janis Joplin the space to be herself, which was probably our greatest gift to her
Sam Andrew
Big Brother and the Holding Company
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I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.
Dave Douglas
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Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know
Gregory Isaacs
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My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
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I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
Eric Clapton
Blind Faith
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I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.
Ringo Starr
The Beatles
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I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted, you know. Are jealous hearted musicians, you know. See, if you can't do like your songs, get kinda jealous of you. Like you, like they think you better than them and all that, but I don't fool with those kind of peoples, you know. I ain't got the time.
Chester Burnett
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Tim Price has captured my imagination on many occasions with his forward thinking arrangements and wonderfully captivating playing. He is a unique musician made more unique because he has searched and found his own voice. Truly a rare find in music.
Jeff Coffin
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
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When I was seven years old I played the flute, then by 11 I quit being a musician and got into Djing.
Jonas Blue
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My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
Babatunde Adebimpe
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You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
