Musician Quotes - Page 31

• I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.

  Louis Armstrong

  Play, Chance

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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 don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

  Yngwie Malmsteen

  Sacrifice, Thinking

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• I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that you have to do it like a musician. You have to learn the language before you can learn to be a novelist.

  Paul Reed Smith

  Hero, Guitar, Novelists

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• Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Reeds, World

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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've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.

  Chaka Khan

  Song, Ira, Great Music

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• I always knew I wanted to be a musician.

  Jonny Lang

  Wanted

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• I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks" or strategies for working with audio files, and then discovered that the same tricks could be applied to video files, or really, any type of data. Previously I made many different kinds of music. I did some work as a composer of film scores. In that role, my task was to create audio to match and deepen the visual. In my work now, the role is often reversed: I have to create images to match and deepen the audio.

  Kurt Ralske

  Data, Different, Tasks

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• Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

  Joni Mitchell

  Misunderstood, Pieces, Made

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• If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable.

  Michael Sandel

  Basketball, Children, Disappointment

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• Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.

  Taylor Swift

  People, My Best Friend, Great Music

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• The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

  Franz Liszt

  Numbers, Firsts, Gypsy

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• Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

  Kurt Ralske

  Roots, Audio, Composer

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• I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that they do, the way we learn about them in music history class. Those things are defined at least decades after they happen. And even then, it's a fallacy because when you're in the moment, when you're in a thriving scene of musicians, inevitably everyone is going to be doing something completely different from everyone else

  Missy Mazzoli

  Believe, Thinking, Practice

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• When I hire musicians, I look for that first: every time they sit down do they go for it, you know? And do they try to learn the music and try to get inside the song whatever the tune is? Whether it's my originals or someone else's, it's just whether or not they're gonna play their hearts out, first and foremost.

  Mike Stern

  Song, Heart, Play

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• When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.

  Meredith Brooks

  Artist, Oregon, Alcohol

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• I think music piracy is forcing many people to look at the live aspect of the record industry as an income and in many ways that's what sets apart good music and musicians from the fly by night pop sensations.

  Ben Howard

  Thinking, Night, People

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• Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the music to someone who can play it, releasing it into the air where it can once more be heard. And the black alphabet marks on the page represent words that were once spoken, if only in the writer's head. They lie there inert until a reader comes along and transforms the letters into living sounds. The reader is the musician of the book: each reader may read the same text, just as each violinist plays the same piece, but each interpretation is different.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Book, Air

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• You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!

  Russell Brand

  Suffering, Important

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• What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.

  Neil Peart

  Dream, Looks, Cymbals

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• To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be a musician is a gift - a gift from Nature. There is no great merit in us except in loving this gift with respect and devotion and doing everything possible to honor that gift by work and more work. We must work with conviction and humility, searching for beauty, simplicity, and the Truth. And it is for us musicians to do all in our power for a better world. Music must carry the message of beauty, of love and of peace.

  Pablo Casals

  Humility, Responsibility, Thinking

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• To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Details, Professionalism, Infinite

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• [Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

  Bing Crosby

  Armstrong, Replaced

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