Musician Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing? These are things that are very subtle and that jazz musician appreciate in a particular way. I appreciate the way Tommy Flanagan swings, the way that Barry Harris swings, the great pulse that Hank Jones and Bill Evans have - end every one of them is different.

  Chuck Israels

  Swings, People, Appreciate

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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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• Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole new level.

  David Finckel

  Levels, Able, Century

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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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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• 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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• I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.

  Weyes Blood

  Female, Twisted, Victim

  "An Older, Wiser Weyes Blood". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2014.

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• When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops.

  Kemp Muhl

  Style, Important, Feels

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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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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• I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career. Not only are they just great, nice guys; they're some of the best musicians you're likely to find. They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It's amazing.

  Al Yankovic

  Nice, Rap, Gangsta

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of Neil Slater, these great musicians have managed to combine small group "openness" with the swinging precision of a classic big band. Very enjoyable!

  Michael Brecker

  Texas, Groups, Band

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• Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.

  William Zinsser

  Art, Taken, Writing

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• I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.

  Craig David

  Art, Morning, Thinking

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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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• I can't remember ever being really bored. I find life very interesting, actually. I think some other musicians are always looking for something to give them an idea, but I find I have to reject 90 percent of my ideas because they don't live up to some self-imposed standard. That's also why I don't make a record once a year. I throw so many things out, and I have to have something to say.

  Tom Verlaine

  Thinking, Self, Years

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• Isn't my music the last of the real rhythm and blues? Isn't it great? It's because of my musicians, we were weaned on Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, all the founding fathers, the gods of thunder, who invented the foundation and the pulse of the greatest music in the world!

  Ted Nugent

  Father, Real, Water

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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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• For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded.

  Steven Price

  Self, Sitting, Rooms

  Source: collider.com

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• Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

  Jon Stewart

  People, Jazz, Planets

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• What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a brush, acting is us. Our energy, our soul, our spirits. And it's so hard because it's so vul­nerable. You're exposing everything.

  Jane Fonda

  Soul, Musical, Acting

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". Interview by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.

  Allie Gonino

  Kids, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it.

  Anton Corbijn

  Thinking, Important, Gone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.

  Geoff Rickly

  People, Proud, Festivals

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

  Joey Tempest

  Names, Example, Cards

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.

  T Bone Burnett

  Art, Advancement, Care

  Source: collider.com

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