Musician Quotes - Page 34

• Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end, the #1 media for musicians. Which is strange, because there's a visual associated with it.

  Travis Morrison

  Media, People, Strange

  "The Dismemberment Plan". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2013.

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• I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and recording, but I am very inspired by so many different musicians, and I need to learn. I sit around and try to play along to certain songs that I really love. It helps you explore new territory. I don't think I listen to enough.

  Devendra Banhart

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.

  Joshua Homme

  Song, Selfish, Forever

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• I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.

  Loren Mazzacane Connors

  Simple, Player, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an art student. I also studied the visual arts at Lancaster University. I then decided to become an actor as he was becoming a musician. And then as an actor/performer, we have similar sort of interests - music hall and that whole world. So, there's a lot that I felt connected with.

  Andy Serkis

  Art, Father, Son

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

  Ben Sollee

  Roles, Care, Storyteller

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• Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.

  Erin McKeown

  Independent, People, Lobbyists

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Ghetto, Community, Brooklyn

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set [for the Last Summer tour], and I didn't want to play Fiery Furnaces material. So half of our set was new songs that we ended up recording for this album. And that made such a huge difference - going into the studio after playing a song for two years, knowing it inside-out and having sung it millions of times, and then recording it is a totally satisfying experience. You're suddenly in this controlled environment and you can make it sound exactly as you've been imagining it.

  Eleanor Friedberger

  Summer, Song, Years

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Bored, Wanderers

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I don't think being a musician makes me a role model at all. But I do believe that I have responsibility to offer people a helping hand when and if I can, just the same way that others have helped me. I think that it's important to keep that cycle going, and to give back to whatever your personal definition of community is.

  Thalia Zedek

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

  Adam McKay

  People, Directors, Hollywood

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.

  Nicolas Jaar

  Senior, School, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.

  Jacob Bannon

  World, Irresponsible, Clouded

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's important me as a musician and also as an occasional show goer to feel the presence of a band on stage, to hear a PA reverberating and slapping off the walls, the push and pull of an audience, the blood, sweat, and heat. It's a primal thing in a way.

  Jacob Bannon

  Wall, Blood, Sweat

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power, they're able to be the strongest arms that they can be, incredibly strong. That's what keeps us going.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Strong, Attitude, Able

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

  David Longstreth

  Thinking, America, People

  "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

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• As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

  A.C. Newman

  Jobs, Easy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

  Bear McCreary

  Couple, Good Enough, Masters

  Source: collider.com

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• It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

  Cass McCombs

  Self, Play, Joy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have a nice little idea from some people I met there who are now in their seventies, and I want to tell their story about the revolution through the eyes of musicians, in fact. The '59 Revolution. And what has happened to them since. It's very much a Cuban story. They haven't fared too well.

  John Gimlette

  Nice, Eye, Ideas

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Sound, Poet, My Favorite

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.

  Eyvind Kang

  Song, Creativity, Sacrifice

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.

  Grant Evans

  Hard Times, Talking, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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