Musician Quotes
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I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
Cassandra Wilson
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There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.
Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones -
I’m not saying that maybe there isn’t a kid out there whose behavior hasn’t been influenced by me in some way. I’m sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you’d asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I’d admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that’d be a yes, totally.
Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles -
If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.
Toby Stephens -
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
Erykah Badu -
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 -
I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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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 -
Well a good writer writes, a good musician listens to a lot more than he actually composes, and if you're going to do lyrics - well, there's a Freudian slip. That's not even a slip, that's a Freudian move: I said going to do lyrics. If you really want it to ring true, you'll live it first. Go really get your heart broken!
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.
Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz -
I'm still on my demos. I'm still making my mind up and deciding what kind of artistic production to come in. I do things at home with my musicians but I would like an artistic producer to come in and work on them.
Violante Placido -
You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.
Van Dyke Parks -
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.
Brian Joseph Burton Broken Bells
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Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
Norman Granz -
I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.
Harry Connick, Jr. -
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
Robert Wyatt -
I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.
Juanes -
I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.
Cass McCombs -
I find myself, the more I grow up the more I hang around creatives, musicians. I find them more inspiring to be around. I'd probably say that. The more creative you are - I get along with them better. There is more of an understanding.
Tom Odell
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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.
Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz -
I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.
William Wyman Sherwood Asia -
I moved to Portland because Modest Mouse is there. I didn't necessarily mean to live there permanently, but I've got a really good feeling for it. The sensibility there really suits me. I happened to have grown up in Manchester, a city that was a pretty cool place to be a musician. It's close to Portland in a lot of ways.
Johnny Marr Pretenders -
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.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace