Musician Quotes - Page 39

• Initially, when I was first starting as a musician, I was a very nationalistic figure and I used to believe in doing a lot of national songs. I would always have a national song in the albums I did.

  Junaid Jamshed

  Song, Believe, Albums

  Source: irusa.org

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• If you can create a reality that is entirely fictitious, it doesn't owe anything to this stuff out here, but you interact with it on your own terms. I mean, if you took it to the point where finally you get, say, tactile feedback, so you were wired in in terms of the whole nervous system. The sensorium. You would have the ultimate art form. I mean, any painter would want it, any filmmaker would want access to it you know, any musician would want access to it. It would eliminate the need for the divisions between what we describe as the arts, converting the whole thing to experience.

  Jerry Garcia

  Art, Mean, Reality

  Source: medium.com

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• Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

  Miles Davis

  Jazz, Reason, Comfortable

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

  Jerry Garcia

  Thinking, Space, Musical

  Source: medium.com

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• You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever... but with me it just happens.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Artist, Skills, Might

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• Obviously, [Wham!] made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.

  George Michael

  Successful, Ideas, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

  George Michael

  Father, Age, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I got really excited about it. But then we went into the studio and tried to record some with different musicians, and it didn't sound good. It didn't work. So we put together the album [Unchained] with just a guitar and myself.

  Johnny Cash

  Guitar, Together, Sound

  Source: wrvo.org

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• I don't know anyone on my mom's or dad's side that was a musician.

  Tim Kinsella

  Mom, Dad, Sides

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• I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then or now, in which all the articles were written by musicians, by jazz men. They had been laboring for years under the stereotype that they weren't very articulate except when they picked up their horn.

  Nat Hentoff

  Men, Years, Editors

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Miranda [Hentoff] is a complete musician. She's a composer, a singer. She writes scripts along - with her projects. And she's a superb teacher. Her teaching pupils have ranged from Itzhak Perlman to Sting.

  Nat Hentoff

  Teacher, Teaching, Writing

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• [Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she was explaining how [Béla] Bartok composed his second piano concerto. And she explained how the music was interwoven with the rhythms and what he had in his mind. And I was just stunned. This is a kid who used to work - on a piano with a cracked keyboard.

  Nat Hentoff

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Teacher, Reach Out, Happened

  "Not My Job: Jazz Bassist Esperanza Spalding Gets Quizzed On Bases". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, kccu.org. March 26, 2016.

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• Daniel Handler's a writer, musician and the author of, among other things, the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" books. He also wrote the TV version of the books that is available now on Netflix. As said, I recommend both media for this story.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Media, Events

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• For better or for worse, I think my approach to jazz is very traditional, in one sense, but is [also] very out of fashion today. It's about the musicians, and it's about that magic that happens in the moment.

  Jose James

  Fashion, Thinking, Magic

  Source: revive-music.com

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• For me, the difference between a musician reading an arrangement on a piece of paper, and them closing their eyes and listening to what's happening around them and responding to it, is huge.

  Jose James

  Reading, Eye, Differences

  Source: revive-music.com

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• There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's - but I used to study with Junior Mance, and he would tell me about Bradley's. It was a very important place for a generation of jazz musicians in New York. It was really all about pianists there.

  Jose James

  New York, Important, Generations

  Source: revive-music.com

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• Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Want, Hard

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• People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky. It's a combination of right time, right place and having certain genes or a gimmick or whatever, but it's really not anything more than sugar. It tastes good and goes away fast.

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, Player, Rocks

  Source: www.noise11.com

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• To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite daunting when you're musicians.

  Tracey Thorn

  Together, Band, Records

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I wish I could say differently, but I really don't think so. There are too many musicians already for probably anyone to be noticed without some sort of commercial support. Even the most talented ones drown in a sea of mediocrity, and only the politically correct ones will ever be promoted (willingly...) by the press anyhow.

  Varg Vikernes

  Thinking, Sea, Support

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• The thing is, autism is a big spectrum. Going from folks who remain nonverbal, all the way up to, ya know, famous scientists and musicians. And we've got to work on strengths. We also have to work on teaching basic manners and skills.

  Temple Grandin

  Teaching, Skills, Autism

  Source: www.kshb.com

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• A good song is a good song, and good musicians can play all different styles.

  John Doe

  Song, Play, Style

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at that time about what I was going to do or where I was going. I was a musician. I was going to play. I had a band. We were going to make enough money to survive on.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Play, Parent, Doubt

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

  Bruce Springsteen

  New York, Artist, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Source: www.npr.org

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