Musician Quotes - Page 36

• 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 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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• More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up!

  Brian Chippendale

  Art, Cereal, People

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

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• I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There are not very many people who are looking out for you and being in business with you when you're at that stage. And it's not in my nature to think that success as a musician makes you any different from anybody else.

  Johnny Marr

  Thinking, Guitar, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, Sound, Shapes

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

  Keith Richards

  Silence, Canvas, Songwriters

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• I think that today, in Europe at least, people don't tend to think so much about the instrument that is producing the music; they are more interested to see if the musician actually has something to say.

  Michala Petri

  Thinking, Europe, People

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• As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

  Doc Childre

  Beauty, Jazz, Adaptability

  Doc Lew Childre, Bruce Cryer (2000). “From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance”, p.192, HeartMath

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• It's important to respect and exhaustively study the masters of music, but as you grow and develop it's important to use their discoveries, not as a final destination but as a catalyst for your original ideas.

  Carl Orr

  Ideas, Discovery, Important

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• What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.

  Sinead O'Connor

  People, Giving, Soothing

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• I'm not talking about what came later [after the American underground punk scene], indie music, or whatever you want to call it, but the music that came before that - that's an important story. So many interviews with musicians get the time or context wrong. You have these older bands, usually men, who tell stories about "Oh, we got into this huge fight, this guy punched that guy," that's the wrong sort of story. My view of the time is truly pioneering.

  Ian MacKaye

  Fighting, Men, Talking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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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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• When I lived in New York, there wasn't as much TV or film around. I got asked to do a couple of indie films, just based on me being from The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle. I did a couple of indie movies from Japan and one from Canada, and I thought it was an exciting, fun thing to do. I had a great time doing it, it was just that, in New York, there really wasn't as much. My studio in New York closed, so I moved out to L.A. and just started looking into composing as another thing to do, as a musician. I like it a lot. It's fun and it's a different way of thinking about music.

  James Iha

  New York, Couple, Fun

  "James Iha on Scoring James Franco’s ‘Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 17, 2016.

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• One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.

  Eric Fischl

  Sports, Art, Athlete

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I certainly know guys in comedy, I know some actors, and I definitely know some musicians, who have survived to a certain age and make a good living doing what they do, but nobody knows who they are. They wake up every day and they have the ability to get paid practicing their art, but underneath it all, if you scratched the surface, you still get, "If I only had my own show . . .," or "If I only had my own band . . ." It's what people always do when they want to be their own star.

  Denis Leary

  Art, Stars, People

  "Denis Leary on ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 and Playing Johnny Rock". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

  Cliff Martinez

  Musical, Way, Lasts

  "Neon Melodies: Composer Cliff Martinez Interviewed". Interview with Adam White, thequietus.com. July 1, 2016.

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• The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.

  John Petrucci

  Mind, Environment

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

  Paul Watson

  Environmental, Movement, Incredibles

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• I wasn't really that good at being a musician. And then I tried being a standup. I was an actor. I was a photographer. I tried everything. Nothing was particularly working for me, but then, as a musician, I wrote jokes for comics. And they started to buy my jokes, and that's where I thought maybe that might work.

  Garry Marshall

  Actors, Might, Photographer

  "Fresh Air Remembers Garry Marshall, Creator Of 'Happy Days' And 'Laverne & Shirley'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 20, 2016.

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• I've speculated about what my life might have been like as a musician, but I'm afraid I came to the conclusion that I probably would've either been teaching piano or maybe gotten to play at Nordstrom's department store.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Teaching, Piano, Play

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• If an ensemble - I don't care if it's a duet or a forty-piece orchestra - the musicians, the two of them or the forty of them, are all trying to play as tight as possible, as one person. They're trying to play like they are one person.

  John Densmore

  Play, Two, Trying

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My father was a musician, and I've always loved writing. I grew up in New York City during a time when hip hop music was surrounding you with the hip hop culture, and it felt natural. I was a really huge fan of the music.

  El-P

  New York, Father, Writing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I didn't finish high school, but I went to a special school for producers and musicians, a three year course for engineering, producing and learning all the tricks. So now I have my producing degree and certification.

  Martin Garrix

  School, Engineering, Years

  Source: www.tristateindie.com

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• Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he's the best. We don't work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Basketball, Thinking, Player

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I noticed a lot of bands always having a few people in the band being interested in recording and audio production, so I got the idea to create products that would appeal to them. Rather than create tools that only engineers could understand, I designed tools that any musician could use and get instant great sounding results.

  Joey Sturgis

  Ideas, People, Audio

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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