Musician Quotes - Page 4

• You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

  David Lynch

  Inspirational, Mean, Dark

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• When I perform, I don’t think about the haters, the Internet trolls, or anyone else. I care about giving the person in front of me something they won’t forget. And that’s why I bring the cake and raft out.

  Steve Aoki

  Hater, Thinking, Cake

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• You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

  Cannonball Adderley

  African American, Way, Hips

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• The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

  Andres Segovia

  Inspirational, Music, Play

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• Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!

  Abhinavagupta

  Life, Faith, Spiritual

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• Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

  Brent Smith

  Song, Writing, Rock Music

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• I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it. . . seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me.

  Duane Allman

  Love, Inspirational, Learning

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• Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.

  India.Arie

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Song: A Beautiful Day

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• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

  Sun Ra

  African American, Trying, Unattainable

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• A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

  Glenn Miller

  Music, Personality, Sound

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• If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

  Levon Helm

  Music, Work, Heart

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• You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

  Bob Marley

  Love, Relationship, Women

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• In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

  Les Claypool

  Funny, Hope, Crazy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole

  John Lydon

  Funny, Attitude, Talking

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• One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

  Tommy Emmanuel

  Music, Beautiful, Guitar

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• It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

  Mark Lanegan

  Inspirational, Music, Names

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.

  Ryan Adams

  Positive, Happiness, Being Happy

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• I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to describe the real deep inner part of a human beingI want to be at that place where everything is blotted out and where creativity happens, and to get there I practice, you know I'm a prolific practicer, I still practice every dayYou have to have the skills, then you want to not think when you're playing, that's when you let whatever deep level of creativity, spirituality, I mean, you know these words are so inadequate these days but you want to get to this place where they exist.

  Sonny Rollins

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Real

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• Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it, and you have to open your heart to what the world can show you; and sometimes it's terrifying, and sometimes it's incredibly beautiful, and I'll take both. Thanks.

  Graham Nash

  Life, Beautiful, Heart

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• Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

  Kurt Cobain

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Love Yourself

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• Live with your memories and keep them as memories and that’s great. Forget the bad times just remember the good ones and you know and hope tomorrow is a good day

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  Inspirational, Hope, Memories

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• Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.

  Peter Murphy

  Funny, Romantic, Sex

  Peter Murphy (2015). “Lagan Love”, p.81, Fiction Studio Books

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• Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet

  Michael W. Smith

  Time, Powerful, Quiet Moments

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• Stop running to those who ignore you and start running to those who adore you.

  Joseph Simmons

  Inspirational, Running, Self Esteem

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