Musician Quotes - Page 18

• The first thing I think about is music, and the last thing I think about is music. I'm like some Monk. I don't see a lot of daylight. I hang out with musicians, I hang out with directors and I just try to spend as much of my life as possible playing music.

  Hans Zimmer

  Thinking, Trying, Playing Music

  "Interstellar Composer Hans Zimmer On Music and His Own Process For Scoring Films". Quora Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2014.

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• Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.

  Joshua Bell

  Player, Oboes, Different

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• The marvels of God are not brought forth from one's self. Rather, it is more like a chord, a sound that is played. The tone does not come out of the chord itself, but rather, through the touch of the musician. I am, of course, the lyre and harp of God's kindness.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Kindness, Self, Sound

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• Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of humans. Being a parent should be a career. Whereas some people are engineers, musicians, or lawyers, others with the desire and the skills can be fathers and mothers. Schools can be eliminated if the professional parent is also the educator of the child.

  Paul Watson

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

  A. R. Rahman

  Together, Culture, Classical Music

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• I didn't want my records to sound like anybody else, and when I've got my guys in the studio, I have a language with those guys because we work together every day. A lot of times, you bring in outside guys, studio players, whatever, and they're great musicians. It's just that they don't necessarily play the way I want it to be played.

  Jason Aldean

  Player, Guy, Working Together

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• As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creativity, Surrender, Music Business

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.21, Penguin

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• You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline.

  Dallas Campbell

  Thinking, Discipline, Cinema

  Source: collider.com

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• My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

  Kim Basinger

  Dad, First Love, Thinking

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.

  Stephen Bruner

  Play, Ears

  "Thundercat’s Touching Bass". Interview with Tempe Nakiska, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

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• Being an American musician means being adventurous.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Mean, Adventurous

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• You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.

  Itzhak Perlman

  "Itzhak Perlman: I'm Not On The Stage To Walk, I'm On It To Play". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 27, 2015.

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• The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Thinking, Play, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• [Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.

  Ray Still

  Listening, Involved

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• They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

  Michelle Shocked

  Movement, Way, Firsts

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• As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.

  Nick Zinner

  Home, Past, Years

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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• I did exactly what I wanted to do. It was always my intention to put a band together and be a band and not be about the solo pop guy. That was never me. All of the musicians that made me do what I wanted to do were bands. I didn't see it any other way.

  Chris Daughtry

  Guy, Together, Band

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• And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Ambition, Thinking

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• If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that we caught long before. So thanks to them, thanks to all you guys. You opened doors that I don't think would have been opened in my lifetime. When white America started paying attention to the blues - it started opening a lot of doors that had been closed to us.

  B. B. King

  Thinking, White, America

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• For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Way, Music Is, Best Way

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.80, Shambhala Publications

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• When a musician is conveying that fresh feeling, that's what appeals to me, even more so than the style.

  Joseph Trapanese

  Feelings, Style, Appeals

  Source: collider.com

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• The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.

  John Cusack

  Light, People, Effort

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• I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

  Jill Scott

  Luxury, Waiting, Actors

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