Musician Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• 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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• I'm having to cope with the fact that some people might consider me a musician.

  Grant Evans

  People, Might, Facts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, where I played a musician in an all-girl band. That movie is where I met my future ex-husband Jody Porter.

  Britta Phillips

  Girl, Husband, Trying

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

  Blake Judd

  Writing, Thinking, Signatures

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

  Blake Judd

  Math, Thinking, Would Be

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• It was like an exponential weed. And people treated me as if I was an established musician. I wasn't.

  Jack Tatum

  Weed, People, Treated

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Track, Choices, Fundamentals

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I've got this thing where I always kind of diss the older stuff and favor the newer stuff. I mean, it's not just my thing; every artist or musician is like that, I guess.

  Bradford Cox

  Mean, Artist, Favors

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.

  Bradford Cox

  Artist, Stuff, Given

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

  Bradford Cox

  Trying, Taste, Shock

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come true is linked probably to the fact that I traveled a lot, which gave me an open mind and an ability to push my limits.

  Rokia Traore

  Dream, Mind, Singing

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Artist, Giving, Chess

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that had climbed up the totem pole of rock. They were encouraging words that struck a nerve with me and made me stronger.

  Lita Ford

  Giving Up, Moving, Rocks

  "The Runaways Rocker Lita Ford on "Living Like a Runaway". Interview with Jeff Doles, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 10, 2016.

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• People call me a bedroom electronic musician, which I suppose I am. But I hate most electronic music; I find it really boring.

  Max Tundra

  Hate, People, Boring

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

  Brian Chippendale

  Sight, Suffering, Drawers

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Years, Generations, Ifs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.

  Sandra Bullock

  Art, Struggle, Thinking

  "An Election's High Stakes: Sandra Bullock On 'Our Brand Is Crisis'". www.wbur.org. October 31, 2015.

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• I think people want to put you in a box and close it away so that it makes them feel better. A lot of musicians get that.

  Daniel Powter

  Feel Better, Thinking, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton Chekhov, my favorite writer's master piece,Three Sisters,when she arrives reflecting on whether they're ever going to get to Moscow, memories of the death of their father, and she's in black, and she says I'm in mourning for the world, saying in part that I have a sad soul and a cheerful disposition.

  Cornel West

  Memories, Father, Practice

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Writing, Funny Things, World

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

  David Edelstein

  Waiting, Groups, Saplings

  "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 201.

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• I like being a musician that's also a fly on the wall. I like people coming in the room and doing what they do and then leaving. I like attention, but it actually gives me a little less to work with as a performer if people are editing themselves and not being them.

  Travis Morrison

  Wall, Editing, People

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

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• A lot of people live with no apparent means of support. I kind of envy the musicians up there. You're down here, busting your ass in Hollywood, and it's like Lily Tomlin's joke about the rat race - all you prove in the end is that you're a rat.

  Kurt Voss

  Mean, Race, People

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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