Great Musician Quotes - Page 2

• Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

  Ry Cooder

  Beautiful, Musician, Tunes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

  Dodie Smith

  Reading, Musician, Paper

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• When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.

  Joss Stone

  Opportunity, Musician, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The guys that I played with, Hollis Dixon and the Keynotes - just about all the great musicians from Muscle Shoals.We played fraternity parties and kids' dances. They were called "lead outs" for kids in high school. We played wherever we could - in the down time when you weren't recording, people had to make money.

  Donnie Fritts

  Party, School, Kids

  "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 8, 2015.

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• When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

  Miles Davis

  Musician, Spirit, Great Music

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• Maybe the idea of being a rockstar or being the one who's recording or playing, sort of doesn't really matter as much anymore, when you're surrounded by great musicians who bring their spirit, their own talent.

  Adrian Grenier

  Ideas, Musician, Matter

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap.

  Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

  Trying, Musician, Great Music

  "Exclusive Interview: Jim “Dandy” Mangrum Southern Rock Pioneer with Black Oak Arkansas". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockhereandnow.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.

  Jon Gordon

  Nice, Numbers, Class

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• I have learned that collaboration are everything to me. Music is a social thing. If there are no ears to hear it, it has no value. I have really loved getting input from other great musicians- like recording strings with my family or making weird synth sounds with tore nissen.

  Oh Land

  Ears, Input, Musician

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• It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

  Cass McCombs

  Self, Play, Joy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of Neil Slater, these great musicians have managed to combine small group "openness" with the swinging precision of a classic big band. Very enjoyable!

  Michael Brecker

  Texas, Musician, Groups

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• If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable.

  Michael Sandel

  Basketball, Children, Disappointment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm such a copycat."I want to try and do this like the Donovan song 'Changes'," or "I want to do this bit from Van Morrison." I don't know how else to illustrate something, because I'm not a super-great musician. In that way, I'm more like the producer.

  Eleanor Friedberger

  Song, Trying, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• So Nemerov showed us this picture, which is of Apollo flaying Marcius. You don't think of Apollo as being the sort of person who would skin someone alive. But the story behind it was that there was this guy who was a really great musician, and all the women loved him, and people started saying he was the best musician in the world, so Apollo got jealous and he challenged this guy to a musical dual. They would each play a song and the muses would judge who was the better musician.

  Larkin Grimm

  Song, Jealous, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Musician, Cards

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

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• Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.

  Gail Zappa

  Piano, Library, Musician

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.

  Chaka Khan

  Song, Musician, Ira

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• Yeah, we try to get the best musicians possible, and Justin [Robinson] is a great musician, man, a great player. You must have been surprised to see him out there, then.

  Common

  Player, Men, Trying

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

  Frank Zappa

  Giving, Musician, Great Music

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• I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

  Henry Rollins

  Towns, Musician, Great Music

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• I didn't want my records to sound like anybody else, and when I've got my guys in the studio, I have a language with those guys because we work together every day. A lot of times, you bring in outside guys, studio players, whatever, and they're great musicians. It's just that they don't necessarily play the way I want it to be played.

  Jason Aldean

  Player, Guy, Working Together

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• Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.

  Luther Allison

  Sex, Moving, Race

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• Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Girl, Creativity, Mtv

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

  Margaret Fuller

  Soul, Musician, Great Music

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.222

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• A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

  Buddy Rich

  Musician, Thieves, Great Music

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