Musician Quotes - Page 13

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

  Gary Hoey

  Elements

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• The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

  Buddy Guy

  Clubs, Jazz, Disappear

  "Blues guitarist Buddy Guy". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 7, 2012.

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• Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

  Buddy Guy

  Retiring, Blues Music

  "Buddy Guy: ‘Blues Musicians Don’t Retire, They Drop’". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 6, 2012.

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• I get so much from having the opportunity to interface with the younger people and to bring information to them and to represent our culture and our way of life. The feeling and the warmth and the love, it's unbelievable. The type of exchange that goes on between students and teachers or visiting people who are doing master classes, and not just when they're musicians. Even general classes, when the students are not necessarily musicians.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Teacher, Opportunity, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they're not preaching a separatist agenda. They're not taking their music and saying, "This is for me."

  Wynton Marsalis

  America, Jelly, Agendas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of these musicians found themselves out of work. They were brought together at Sachal Studios by Izzat Majeed, who built the studio in order to preserve these musical traditions.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Order, Law, Musical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

  Celia Thaxter

  Flower, Lovers, Poet

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books

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• Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

  Kenny Werner

  Light, Lamps, Calling

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• When I was a little bitty kid, my aunt showed me how to play a little boogie. It took me years. I had to play the left-hand part with two hands, because my hands was so little. Then as I grew up and I learned how to play the left-hand part with one hand, she showed me how to play the right-hand part, and et cetera. My Uncle Joe showed me how to play a little bit different boogie stuff. I had people in my family that was professional musicians, but I just wasn't interested in what they did. I wasn't very open-minded to a lot of music that I'd be more open to today.

  Dr. John

  Uncles, Kids, Aunt

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• Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Expression, Years

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• Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

  Henry Rollins

  Play, Should

  "Henry Rollins says he won't be playing any "old music" - or maybe any music at all - any time soon" by Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 16, 2013.

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• What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.

  Damon Albarn

  Mean, Working With Others, Helping

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• High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.

  Steve Aoki

  School, Sleep, College

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• Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

  Virgil Thomson

  Communication, Impossible, Music Is

  Virgil Thomson (2016). “The State of Music: A Library of America E-Book Classic”, p.21, Library of America

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• The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Kids, Fate

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• There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper credit and that's not true anymore - it used to be. A lot of jazz musicians would get respect in Europe.

  Andrew Bird

  Real, Europe, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

  Vince Gill

  Play, Inspire, Matter

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the singers, to explore and expand your horizons.

  Wu Han

  Play, Horizon, Opera

  "David Finckel and Wu Han". Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship.

  Jake Holmes

  Levels, Wells, Schooled

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• Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away.

  Jake Holmes

  Sorry, Past, Records

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• You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.

  Marc Martel

  People, Kind, Problem

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an almost maniacal, sometimes insane devotion and commitment to communication.

  David Finckel

  Art, Communication, Commitment

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• Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if you don't read and write, and the other musician you're playing with are trying to express something who doesn't read and write, than it's a question of "I wrote" so that you must learn from listening and from understanding where that's coming from.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Reading, Writing, Ideas

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• When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

  Dave Matthews

  Community, Looks, Pay

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• In Old English they don't say I had a dream, but there's another usage of the word - "life is but a dream," to be corny about it. It's implied with eyes wide open, rather than asleep. But I'm not a philosopher to explain myself. I wish I could. Maybe that's why I'm a musician.

  Tom Verlaine

  Dream, Eye, Wish

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