Musician Quotes - Page 10

• To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

  James Taylor

  Writing, Elements, Singers

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• When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

  John McLaughlin

  Funny, Inspiring, Great Music

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• It doesn't matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to give back.

  Shakira

  Responsibility, Giving, Leader

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

  Benny Goodman

  Winning, Want, Today

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  My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

  Bono

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  "Bono Bites Back". Interview with Adam Block, www.motherjones.com. May 1, 1989.

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  Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Love, Artist, Power

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• Musicians own music because music owns them.

  Virgil Thomson

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• Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don't know what to tell a person that can't - if you can't tell a person what you're talkin' about when they're rushin' or droppin' the tempo, you get somebody else.

  Miles Davis

  Heart, Mean, Play

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording.

  Snoop Dogg

  Balls, Wells

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• Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

  Count Basie

  Funny, Music, Way

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• It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

  Glenn Danzig

  Christian, Religious, Freedom

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

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• Music is my religion.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Religion, Rock N Roll

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• Life is one big road with lots of signs,
  So when you riding through the ruts,
  Don't you complicate your mind
  Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
  Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Song: 'Wake Up and Live!'". 1979.

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  Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Music, Song

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.

  Eric Clapton

  Play, People, Guy

  "Eric Clapton on other guitarists, Blind Faith, Cream and more". Interview with Greg Kot, www.heraldextra.com. August 4, 2007.

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• The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

  Robert Fripp

  Play, Sound, Given

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• I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and have a drink and listen to a good jazz musician. Or sometimes in the morning, if I want to put myself in a good mood, I'll put on some Latin music.

  Joshua Bell

  Morning, Latin, Clubs

  "Joshua Bell’s Virtuoso Reality". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May 2011.

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• We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all the time in your own room and never see another musician your whole life. We can't understand that in Mali.

  Vieux Farka Toure

  Song, Thinking, Play

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• I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.

  Herb Alpert

  Men, Thinking, Creative

  "Jazz musician Herb Alpert". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2013.

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• Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.

  Alexei Navalny

  Purple, Pussy, Groups

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• I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter.

  Shahin Najafi

  Giving Up, Iran, Enemy

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• If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that it should end in a place very different from where it began, and that you've heard musicians undergo a change or be irreversibly transformed.

  David Grubbs

  Ideas, Records, Littles

  Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

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• I never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my first feelings about art are still attached to music. I look at it yearningly, I look at it wonderingly. I behold it from afar, as something unattainable, something outside of myself, from which I can take nourishment, but I can't domesticate and master.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Feelings, Looks

  "Music, Influence, and 'Deeply Unnecessary' Art". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. March 17, 2015.

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• As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

  Sheryl Crow

  Teacher, Reading, Writing

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