Musician Quotes
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Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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I've never been a jam-band sort of 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 was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
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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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To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.
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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.
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We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
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I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.
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You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.
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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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Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.
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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.
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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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One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
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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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My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
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A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.
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If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.
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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.
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See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.
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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've got this thing where I always kind of diss the older stuff and favor the newer stuff. I mean, it's not just my thing; every artist or musician is like that, I guess.
