Musician Quotes - Page 29

• My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

  Tommy Bolin

  School, My Family

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• I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz players] stay in the clubs. Jazz must be accessible to everyone.

  Dee Dee Bridgewater

  Player, Numbers, Looks

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• When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s.

  David Bowie

  Musical, Sound, Electronics

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• All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

  Dolly Parton

  Piano, People, Grandpa

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• 'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

  Dave Grohl

  Men, Ideas, Monsters

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• The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked
  was Paul McCartney.

  Freedy Johnston

  Sophisticated, Pops, Pop Music

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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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• For starters, I should just tell you that The Band was always my favorite band from the first moment that I heard the first note of "The Weight" on WNEW radio. It was when I was eight years old and Music From Big Pink came out. They were my favorite band always. They had a profound influence on me and on my becoming a musician.

  Colin Linden

  Eight, Years, Profound

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• My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Father, Sides, Social Worker

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• I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

  Levon Helm

  Way

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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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• Well, I've heard a lot of people, but I think I would say a Brazilian musician named Hermeto Pascoal was one of my biggest influences. Through the years he mastered the keyboards. He use to play the organ Hammond B3, flute, saxophone, percussion and guitar. He is one of the most complete musicians that I ever met. Not too long after we came to the United States, Airto Moreira introduced him to Miles Davis, who recorded three of Hermeto's compositions on his album "Live Evil.

  Flora Purim

  Thinking, Guitar, Years

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• Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different.

  Slash

  Sex, Rocks, Hands

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• A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.

  Shirley Manson

  Artist, Parent, Ends

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• A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it.

  Peter Andre

  Clothes, Albums, Looks

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• I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

  Bill Bruford

  Writing, Player, Two

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• Once you lose that musician part -not just the playing, I'm talking about musician attitude- then you're lost, man. Especially if you started out that way. It feels so good to be back, starting from the ground up.

  Bootsy Collins

  Attitude, Men, Talking

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• You are in a state of mixing, and you just live with it. There is not one musician who is completely happy with a mix.

  Gary Cherone

  Mixing, States, Just Live

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• I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't just hear the politicians and the military leaders. You have to hear from the taxi drivers. You have to hear from the painters. You have to hear from the poets. You have to hear from the school teachers and the filmmakers and musicians.

  Michael Franti

  Teacher, Military, School

  "Reasoning With Michael Franti". Interview with Marlon Regis, jahworks.org. October 21.

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• Musicians coming together at a time of need is one of the great traditions in this country. It's like people taking charge.

  Mark O'Connor

  Country, People, Together

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• We always have a basic structure for a piece of music, but we encourage the musicians to elaborate on whatever they feel at that particular moment. There's a definite conversation happening on stage. I think it is very important for us as creative musicians, to instantaneously describe any energy that is visible at that time.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Thinking, Creative, Important

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• First of all I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the comeback that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers somewhere to be viable, salable and so on.

  John Sebastian

  Thinking, Musical, Way

  Interview with Gary James, www.theharbinger.org. October 7, 1997.

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• What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Practice, Trying, Way

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• Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

  Ry Cooder

  Mean

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• The second album was like being on a completely different planet compared to when we were making the first album. ... Even though it was the same musicians, the same artist, the same studio, the same producer, - it felt like a completely different piece of a puzzle.

  Katie Melua

  Artist, Different, Albums

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