Musician Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and met him, that floored her -- really grabbed her. She decided that Wayne Shorter was really conducive to her music. She would speak metaphorically about things. "I want this to sound like a taxicab driver, or a taxi in New York," or "I want this to sound like a telephone ringing." She would speak to musicians like that, and we really tuned into what she would want our music to be.

  Don Alias

  New York, Elements, Want

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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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• 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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• I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

  Tom Felton

  Song, Band, Pieces

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• In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Ancient, Great Music, Prophet

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria

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• If I wasn't a musician... I think I'd just be endlessly traveling.

  Ben Howard

  Thinking, Ifs

  Source: innerearmedia.wordpress.com

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

  Bill Wyman

  Play, Bass

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• Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.

  Stewart Copeland

  Thinking, Horizon, Drummer

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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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• He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced? How many have passed to the sound of his music? It's been said that a man should not be forced to live up to his art. Benny Carter is one of the rare instances when we wonder whether the great art that a man has created can live up to him.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Song, Art, Night

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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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• I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.

  Herbie Hancock

  Looks, Standpoint, Humans

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• I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

  Henry Rollins

  Spinal Tap, Annie Hall, Way

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• Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

  Henry Rollins

  Texas, Band, Good Bands

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• Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

  Henry Rollins

  Fans, Able, Sometimes

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• I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

  Henry Rollins

  Towns, Great Music, Jokes

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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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• Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.

  Bill Maher

  Cutting, Opportunity, Style

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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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