Musician Quotes - Page 19

• I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

  Dave Douglas

  Thinking, Want, Jazz

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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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• Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Reeds, World

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• I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

  Bill Wyman

  Play, Bass

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• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  Ian Anderson

  Taken, Rocks, Income

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• I never wanted to churn it out. Comedians tend to work all the time. They never put it down like musicians who might make an album then take three or four years off to recharge their batteries. Comedians tend to work straight through and they get stale because of that. Even when I didn't have a lot of money I never ever did it unless I had something new to say.

  Chris Rock

  Years, Comedian, Albums

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

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• My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

  Ziggy Marley

  Independent, Artist, Decision

  "The 'Marley' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.theskanner.com. April 23, 2012.

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• 'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.

  Ziggy Marley

  Fun, Inspiration, People

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

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• Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

  Henry Rollins

  Brilliant, Drummer, Natural

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• Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

  Henry Rollins

  Hair, Play, One Day

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• I basically 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. But in India, I think it's limited to filler music unfortunately. That's one thing I want to push in India where we have the infrastructure of an orchestra where you play Indian melodies with an orchestra and something different for a universal audience. It requires a lot of work from me.

  A. R. Rahman

  Thinking, Play, Together

  "Composer A.R. Rahman Interview 127 HOURS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 28, 2010.

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• From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny Carter redefined American jazz. From the start, his fellow musicians said the way he played the sax was amazing. They say that about me, too. (Laughter.) But I don't think they mean it in quite the same way.

  William J. Clinton

  Laughter, Mean, Thinking

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• The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.

  Duke Ellington

  Problem, Made, Music Is

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• Benny [Carter] opened the eyes of a lot of producers and studios, so that they could understand that you could go to blacks for other things outside of blues and barbecue. He's a total musician. He was the pioneer, he was the foundation. He made it possible for that doubt to be taken away.

  Quincy Jones

  Taken, Eye, Doubt

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• When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That's always what I wanted to do.

  Goapele

  Impact, Would Be, World

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and I got to play a few tunes with him there. Shortly after that, I joined his band, which was the equivalent of joining the Beatles for me! He was, and still is, one of the greatest musicians I have ever been lucky enough to be around.

  Pat Metheny

  Play, Tunes, Lucky

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• [Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

  Bing Crosby

  Armstrong, Replaced

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• Our nights didn't begin until after noon. Because in the old days, you'd start Birdland at 8:30 or 9 pm and play until 4 in the morning. Then you'd go out to the corner and talk to a couple of musicians - I used to talk to Oscar Pettiford a whole lot - you'd stand there till 7, 8 or 9, or else go down to the jam session at Minton's.

  Charles Mingus

  Morning, Couple, Night

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• I think that today, in Europe at least, people don't tend to think so much about the instrument that is producing the music; they are more interested to see if the musician actually has something to say.

  Michala Petri

  Thinking, Europe, People

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• When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

  Jack Welpott

  Trying, Cameras, Doe

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• That was a very natural process because as I was creating the animatic I added music clips as reference of the kind of music I wanted in the film. These were from musicians like Naná Vasconcelos and Barbatuques, the body percussion group.

  Alex Abreu

  Creating, Groups, Body

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.

  George Russell

  Order, Figures, Theory

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• I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Way, Likes, Fame

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There are so many different musicians I look up to for different reasons - from hip-hop to rock to pop. Some are Alanis Morissette, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Beyoncé, Lil Wayne.

  Manika

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Different

  "Manika Q&A". Kidzworld Interview, www.kidzworld.com.

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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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