Musician Quotes
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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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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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I think if you are a musician, and artist, you have to have a certain courage. Repeating yourself or photocopying other's art... it's cowardice. If you actually risk your career to do something new, even if it's in a very small way, then it's art.
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I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.
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I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
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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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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.
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When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.
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Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.
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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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I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.
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The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.
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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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I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.
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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.
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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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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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Regardless of the method, the act of worship must be in spirit and truth-from our rational consciousness and consistent with the rest of our lives (see John 4:24). We don't have to be great singers or musicians to worship God. But we do need to be in a personal relationship with Him and live with the truth of His greatness reflecting through all we are becoming and all we do.
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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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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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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
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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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Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.
