Musician Quotes - Page 11

• I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and the real conductors, the professional conductors at the time were not interested in our stuff.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Real, Groups, Stuff

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that it should end in a place very different from where it began, and that you've heard musicians undergo a change or be irreversibly transformed.

  David Grubbs

  Ideas, Records, Littles

  Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

  Grace Gummer

  Brother, Growing Up, Parent

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• It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected way. Authors, composers and artists have tried - and here we've rounded up our favorite quotes that help to begin forming structure around such an unspoken universal force. Which are most meaningful to you? If you had to sum up the power of music and sound in one sentence, what would you say?"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."

  Leopold Stokowski

  Meaningful, Moving, Artist

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• Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways. Good and bad.

  Elle King

  Different, Way, My Favorite

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• Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Giants, Precious Possessions, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Being a musician - it's easier for me to date an athlete. There's too much competition [with a musician]. There's too much know-it-all pop star.

  Jessica Simpson

  Stars, Athlete, Competition

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in my experience played no role in whether or not a musician has been able to articulate my intentions as a composer.

  Michael Hersch

  Issues, Able, Roles

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• Everybody now who's playing in Unicorn band is deeply schooled in music. I'm the only one who's self-taught, which I think is a bit hilarious because I'm leading the band and writing the songs, but I'm surrounded by such overwhelmingly competent musicians.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Playing the sex object may not be dangerous for Miley Cyrus, with her bodyguards to protect her, but for a 13-year-old girl hanging out at a party at night, it can be. So I think it's fair to say to musicians: "Objectifying yourself is not the best choice."

  Keli Goff

  Girl, Sex, Party

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

  Gary Hoey

  Elements

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• I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and have a drink and listen to a good jazz musician. Or sometimes in the morning, if I want to put myself in a good mood, I'll put on some Latin music.

  Joshua Bell

  Morning, Latin, Clubs

  "Joshua Bell’s Virtuoso Reality". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May 2011.

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• We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all the time in your own room and never see another musician your whole life. We can't understand that in Mali.

  Vieux Farka Toure

  Song, Thinking, Play

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• I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter.

  Shahin Najafi

  Giving Up, Iran, Enemy

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• I worked really hard to develop me as an artist and as a musician. I have so many different influences and play so many different instruments, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me!

  Elle King

  Artist, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my first feelings about art are still attached to music. I look at it yearningly, I look at it wonderingly. I behold it from afar, as something unattainable, something outside of myself, from which I can take nourishment, but I can't domesticate and master.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Feelings, Looks

  "Music, Influence, and 'Deeply Unnecessary' Art". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. March 17, 2015.

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• As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

  Sheryl Crow

  Teacher, Reading, Writing

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• A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. You know it when you hear it.

  Michael Jackson

  Feel Good, Feels Right, Materials

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Sep 03, 2015

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• A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.

  Bradley Joseph

  Demand, Helping, Talent

  "Continuing Journey: Bradley Joseph sustains music career with songwriting, recording". West Central Tribune, February 18, 2007.

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• I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

  Lindi Ortega

  Different, Release, Producers

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• A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!

  Gerry Mulligan

  Player, Records, Radio

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• Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

  Debbie Harry

  Singers, Incredibles, Christina

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• I know people who believe in ghosts but don’t believe in themselves. It’s kind of sad. Okay you don’t think you’ll ever make it as a musician, but last night you saw a translucent caveman.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Believe, Night, Thinking

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• Riding a horse is a relationship with a foreign creature, and with musicians it's a similar thing: "OK, I'm going to put something on the page that will spook you into rushing." Little games you can play.

  Nico Muhly

  Horse, Games, Play

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Actors, Talent, Wanted

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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