Great Musician Quotes - Page 4

• If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

  Charlie Haden

  Humility, Generosity, Quality

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• Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

  John Zorn

  Musician, Great Music, Accepting

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• I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

  Will Oldham

  Lying, Thinking, Musician

  "Ode to joy" by Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2007.

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• You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

  Etta James

  Song, Fake, Musical

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• People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

  Sondre Lerche

  Artist, Past, Names

  "Sondre Lerche is more than 'a Bacharach-obsessed indie kid from Norway'" by Derk Richardson, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2004.

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• There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

  Sonny Rollins

  Mean, Musician, Example

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• I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.

  Matt Cameron

  Cities, People, Musician

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• I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

  Roddy Doyle

  Hands, Years, Musician

  "Sexy Dublin? It's a con" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2004.

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• All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

  Dolly Parton

  Piano, People, Grandpa

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