Great Musician Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look.

  Ry Cooder

  Musician, Looks, Tradition

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

  Will Oldham

  Lying, Thinking, Musician

  "Ode to joy" by Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2007.

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• Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

  John Zorn

  Musician, Great Music, Accepting

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