Musician Quotes - Page 11

• Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.

  Cass McCombs

  Creating, Community, Wake Up

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• A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. You know it when you hear it.

  Michael Jackson

  Feel Good, Feels Right, Materials

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Sep 03, 2015

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• A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.

  Bradley Joseph

  Demand, Helping, Talent

  "Continuing Journey: Bradley Joseph sustains music career with songwriting, recording". West Central Tribune, February 18, 2007.

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• I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.

  Bradley Joseph

  Memorable, Writing, Firsts

  Official Bio from bradleyjoseph.com,

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• I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

  Lindi Ortega

  Different, Release, Producers

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• Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

  Grace Gummer

  Brother, Growing Up, Parent

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• Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

  Shawn Amos

  Cash, Federal Reserve, Reserves

  "'How Do You Expect Me to Live on $10 Million a Year?': Famous Musician Bankruptcies" by Shawn Amos, www.foxnews.com. June 15, 2009.

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• It's all about synthesis, you don't have to be a real musician. You just synthesize your own reality, synthesize your own talents. Welcome to the electronic age.

  Klayton

  Real, Age, Synthesis

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• I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge divide between the artist and the fan. And with indie culture that wall is removed. You actually do see the musicians walking around enjoying the show. It's a distinctly different culture and for the 99% of Nirvana fans that caught up with them with Nevermind, my book is gonna give them a whole different take on Kurt [Cobain] and the band.

  Bruce Pavitt

  Wall, Book, Thinking

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• A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!

  Gerry Mulligan

  Player, Records, Radio

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• It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected way. Authors, composers and artists have tried - and here we've rounded up our favorite quotes that help to begin forming structure around such an unspoken universal force. Which are most meaningful to you? If you had to sum up the power of music and sound in one sentence, what would you say?"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."

  Leopold Stokowski

  Meaningful, Moving, Artist

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• Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

  Debbie Harry

  Singers, Incredibles, Christina

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• I know people who believe in ghosts but don’t believe in themselves. It’s kind of sad. Okay you don’t think you’ll ever make it as a musician, but last night you saw a translucent caveman.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Believe, Night, Thinking

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• As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but bring your own thing to it." In a lot of ways they feel like opposites, but in a sense, my job is to cajole or encourage decisions that I approve of.

  Nico Muhly

  Jobs, Opposites, Play

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Riding a horse is a relationship with a foreign creature, and with musicians it's a similar thing: "OK, I'm going to put something on the page that will spook you into rushing." Little games you can play.

  Nico Muhly

  Horse, Games, Play

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways. Good and bad.

  Elle King

  Different, Way, My Favorite

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• I worked really hard to develop me as an artist and as a musician. I have so many different influences and play so many different instruments, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me!

  Elle King

  Artist, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Giants, Precious Possessions, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Playing the sex object may not be dangerous for Miley Cyrus, with her bodyguards to protect her, but for a 13-year-old girl hanging out at a party at night, it can be. So I think it's fair to say to musicians: "Objectifying yourself is not the best choice."

  Keli Goff

  Girl, Sex, Party

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and the real conductors, the professional conductors at the time were not interested in our stuff.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Real, Groups, Stuff

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Thinking, Play, Supportive

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you're critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of "The New York Times," and he says something, like, wacky, well, he'll get his name on the cover of "The New York Times" and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.

  James McBride

  New York, Book, Artist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Being a musician - it's easier for me to date an athlete. There's too much competition [with a musician]. There's too much know-it-all pop star.

  Jessica Simpson

  Stars, Athlete, Competition

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Actors, Talent, Wanted

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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• I've had a very different career than a lot of other musicians. I went through the major labels. I was signed to two major labels and bands. I've toured with Aerosmith, and I've had records on the charts, songs in the movies. If you had checklist of things a person wants to accomplish in music...I've done a lot. And I don't mean that in an egotistical way; I never take it for granted. But you can't think outside the box unless you know what's in the box.

  Michael Angelo Batio

  Song, Mean, Thinking

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