Musician Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

  Yngwie Malmsteen

  Mom, Guitar, Seven

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• I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could possibly be as a musician. More so they really want you to stick to something.

  Kid Ink

  Artist, People, Creative

  Source: bestfan.com

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• Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Fire, Attention

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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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• Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician.

  Charlie Worsham

  Country, Opportunity, Honor

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• I don't understand how a musician can play 90 minutes on stage and then not dedicate a little bit of time to hang out at their merch table. It's not like digging a ditch or something; you're standing there thanking people for coming out to see you.

  Aaron Watson

  Play, People, Digging

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• I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.

  Jonny Lang

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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• God makes something special and unique about each person that sets them apart from every other person, and to me that's is what artistry is about, whether you are a plumber, a pinter, a musician whatever it is that is unique about you that is translated into your art.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Art, Unique, Special

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• I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

  Martha Wainwright

  Fun, School, College

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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 don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

  AraabMuzik

  Writing, Play, Piano

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

  Kenny Werner

  Sky, Music Is, Ifs

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life because he'd have ended up a dead musician, with all the crazy stuff they did on Rush Street back in the day.

  Kim Basinger

  Dad, Crazy, War

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

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• I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.

  Herb Alpert

  Men, Thinking, Creative

  "Jazz musician Herb Alpert". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2013.

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• Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.

  Alexei Navalny

  Purple, Pussy, Groups

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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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• 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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• Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

  Shawn Amos

  Cash, Federal Reserve, Reserves

  "'How Do You Expect Me to Live on $10 Million a Year?': Famous Musician Bankruptcies" by Shawn Amos, www.foxnews.com. June 15, 2009.

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• It's all about synthesis, you don't have to be a real musician. You just synthesize your own reality, synthesize your own talents. Welcome to the electronic age.

  Klayton

  Real, Age, Synthesis

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• I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

  John Coltrane

  Thinking, Majority

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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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