Musician Quotes

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  If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Music, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

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• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

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• It's so easy to laugh,
  It's so easy to hate,
  It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

  Steven Morrissey

  Strength, Laughter, Kindness

  "Song: 'I Know It's Over'". 1986.

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• A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Writing, Air

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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  Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

  Louis Armstrong

  Inspiring, Music, Retirement

  1968 Quoted in the Observer, 21 Apr.

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  There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Song: Anthem

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• I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

  Virgil Thomson

  Known

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• My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'

  Dhani Harrison

  Funny, Dad, Humorous

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

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• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivational, Music, Wisdom

  Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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• Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2011

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• I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

  James Taylor

  Music, Stars, Pain

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

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• Even the genius ask questions.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Doubt

  Song: Me Against The World

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• If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Practice, Two, Missing

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  Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

  Billy Joel

  Heart, Loud Voices, Want

  Twitter post from Sep 27, 2011

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• Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

  Miles Davis

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  Carlos Santana

  Past, Thinking, People

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• Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

  Benny Goodman

  Winning, Want, Today

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  My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

  Bono

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  "Bono Bites Back". Interview with Adam Block, www.motherjones.com. May 1, 1989.

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• Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

  Count Basie

  Funny, Music, Way

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• It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

  Glenn Danzig

  Christian, Religious, Freedom

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

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  Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Music is my religion.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Religion, Rock N Roll

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• Life is one big road with lots of signs,
  So when you riding through the ruts,
  Don't you complicate your mind
  Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
  Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Song: 'Wake Up and Live!'". 1979.

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  Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Music, Song

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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