Musician Quotes - Page 26

• My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

  T Bone Burnett

  Eight, Practice, People

  Source: collider.com

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• People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they decide to make art. The technology that people are working with now will be replaced in 10 years, so that's not where your future is, if you're a musician.

  T Bone Burnett

  Art, Technology, Years

  Source: collider.com

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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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• A lot of good musicians made me look good.

  Cosimo Matassa

  Looks, Made

  Interview with Todd Collins, toddcollinsmusic.com. May 4, 2007.

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• The bandleader is a musician trying to sell a mass commodity; and in order to do so successfully he must accommodate himself to mass standards. Unless he can do this comfortably, sooner or later he is sunk.

  Artie Shaw

  Order, Trying, Commodity

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• I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Art, Crazy, Niece

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• Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.

  Dan Morgenstern

  Keys, Three, Use

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• 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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• Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.

  Luther Allison

  Sex, Moving, Race

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• God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God from His music. The universal Consciousness is constantly being played by the Supreme Himself, and is constantly growing into the Supreme Music.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Growing, Consciousness, Being Played

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• Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.

  Airto Moreira

  Artist, Play, Reputation

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• I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff. It's the first thing I have to solidify whenever...I get into a character. The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.

  Guy Pearce

  Moving, Character, Voice

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com.

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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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• 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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• No, it's the musicians and I must say they are an accomplished bunch, but odd, as musicians tend to be. Is it the vibration from their instruments, do you suppose, working on the brain? All that fraught buzzing?

  Robertson Davies

  Brain, Vibrations, Odd

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Cunning Man”, Penguin Group USA

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• Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Artist, Men, Giving

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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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• 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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• So if you can make it through, you know you've got something good, you can handle anything. We've been blessed to grow but at the same time, the hard part is having to wear every single hat. It's exhausting, but it's entirely worth it because on the flip side, the best part about being a touring musician is being a touring musician.

  Lizzo

  Blessed, Flip, Sides

  "Lizzo’s Big Moment". Interview with Lea Weatherby, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 15, 2014.

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• When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

  Clint Eastwood

  Regret, Looks, Ruined

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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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• When I like a musician I want to see a picture or a video of them.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Video, Want

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

  Hector Berlioz

  Art, Inspiration, May

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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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• What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

  Keith Richards

  Tombstone, Old Things, Water

  "Like a Rolling Stone / Bands influenced by Mick and the boys" by James Sullivan,, www.sfgate.com. November 03, 2002.

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