Musician Quotes - Page 3

• It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living

  Ludovico Einaudi

  Time, Energy, Limits

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• The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

  Eve Arnold

  Photography, Magic, Photographer

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• Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.

  Chris Robinson

  Beautiful, Interesting, Together

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.

  Mark E. Smith

  Thinking, Sticks, Stuck

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• The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Spirit, Jazz

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• Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.

  Ed Westwick

  Inspirational, Relationship, Expectations

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• As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

  Roberta Flack

  Inspiring, Voice, People

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• The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

  Roy Ayers

  People, True Beauty, Messengers

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• The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspiring, Music, Wise

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• If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.

  Coleman Hawkins

  Music, Learning, Cat

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• Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

  Austin Mahone

  Inspirational, Everything Happens For A Reason, Helping

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• Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Learning, Opportunity, Missing

  Twitter post from Oct 05, 2012

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  Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Family Practice" by Leigh Roche, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2015.

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• The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

  Robert Fripp

  Rewards, Privilege, Moments

  "Business Aims" by Robert Fripp, www.laweekly.com. March 24, 1999.

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• Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

  Chet Atkins

  Funny, Music, Guitar

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

  Kenny G

  Inspirational, Music, Years

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• You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

  Cannonball Adderley

  African American, Way, Hips

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• You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

  David Lynch

  Inspirational, Mean, Dark

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• I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

  Dave Gahan

  Love, Music, Song

  "Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan gets spiritual". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

  Brent Smith

  Song, Writing, Rock Music

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• I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.

  Woody Guthrie

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Woody Guthrie (1975). “Woody Sez”

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• Art is my God, Music is my religion.

  Otep Shamaya

  Music, God, Art

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• When I perform, I don’t think about the haters, the Internet trolls, or anyone else. I care about giving the person in front of me something they won’t forget. And that’s why I bring the cake and raft out.

  Steve Aoki

  Hater, Thinking, Cake

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• Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

  Isaac Stern

  Music, Art, Notes

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