Musician Quotes
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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.
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A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.
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Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.
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The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.
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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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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.
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Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did it, I lived it and I breathed it every day of my life for 30-odd years and now I am slowing down a little bit. But it does not mean that I am any less intense and dedicated to the work that I am doing now. I have other priorities in life as well.
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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!
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What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?
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As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.
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One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
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Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.
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You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.
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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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When I like a musician I want to see a picture or a video of them.
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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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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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I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.
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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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When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
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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.
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I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.
