Musician Quotes
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It can be difficult to mediate a compromise between what I have in my head and what the musician has in mind, which is often 180° different when it comes to the finished product, so it requires that element of trust from somewhere. The point I make to them is "You've seen what I do, so just trust me and we will come up with something exciting."
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When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have to be this thing where I go out and I'm like candy-striping, or becoming a therapist or something. I think that maybe, maybe I'm supposed to be a musician, because of that fact.
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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
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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
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Martin's the songwriter, Alan's the good musician, Dave's the vocalist... and I bum around.
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My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.
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I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.
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The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
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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.
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I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.
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I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.
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That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.
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The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.
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I thought that you had to work, work, work and try to be the best musician you could, and that's the only way you could make it. Then it turns out, halfway through the scene, they change the rules on you!
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
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I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.
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I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.
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I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.
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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.
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It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.
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The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.
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In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.
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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
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I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.
