Great Musician Quotes - Page 3

• Surrounding myself with people I enjoy being with made the sessions effortless. Everyone came prepared and ready to play. All were great musicians and they came to the studio to give everything they had.

  Stanley Clarke

  Play, People, Giving

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• We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear some blues, some jazz, a little of everything. The guys in the band are great musicians. When we play, we're there for real. It's not about posing, strutting in tights, that kind of stuff. It's all about music, and I've always respected my audience that way.

  Steve Miller

  Real, Rocks, Play

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• Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in the way, but only serve the agenda of the heart.

  Joe Locke

  Writing, Heart, Technique

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• Deftones is always my main focus. I’ve been doing it the longest and it’s definitely a priority. I think of these as projects. It’s not like I’m unfulfilled with a need to find another outlet. I look at it as making music with my friends, and I’m blessed that they’re great musicians.

  Chino Moreno

  Blessed, Thinking, Focus

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• I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Musician, Berlin, September

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• Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

  Stevie Wonder

  Music, Today, Kenny

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• Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.

  Dave Mustaine

  Trying, Musician, Want

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• Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.

  Whitney Houston

  Singing, Musician, Growing

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• I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Musician, Bills, Great Music

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• They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.

  Vladimir Putin

  Gay, Awards, Tchaikovsky

  "Tchaikovsky May Have Been Gay, Putin Reluctantly Admits" by • Alexander Abad-Santos, www.theatlantic.com. September 4, 2013.

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• I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids.

  Kid Rock

  Dad, Kids, People

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• THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

  Ken Hensley

  Musician, Band, Firsts

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• Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!

  Paul Simon

  Musician, Great Music

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• When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'

  Wynton Marsalis

  Father, School, Son

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• The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.

  Shepard Fairey

  Inspiration, Musician, Giants

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• Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.

  Taylor Swift

  People, My Best Friend, Musician

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• For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

  John Zorn

  Tunnels, Years, People

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• The problem is that the internet IS some kid in a basement with an opinion. The fact that David Bowie and Elton John told me that they were fans of Helmet - or Neil Young - that means something to me because I grew up on their music and they’re great musicians... That means more to me than some guy who hates the fact that my hair is short.

  Page Hamilton

  Hate, Mean, Kids

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• Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Musician, Doe

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• It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Spiritual, Mind

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• When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.

  Meredith Brooks

  Artist, Oregon, Alcohol

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• Bourbon Street is like playing, a tourist, you know? It's just a tourist attraction ... those musicians on Bourbon Street, they play all day. They might start at 12 noon and end at 3 in the morning, like, it's like sets, like a job. You go play, take a break, play again, take a break, then later on that night, the club gets busier, then you play some more. There's pride. They're a group of great musicians- and they're holding it down.

  Troy Andrews

  Morning, Jobs, Pride

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• In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Musician, Ancient, Great Music

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria

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• How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Mean, Understanding

  Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward (2008). “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life”, p.15, Random House

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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, Musician

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