Musician Quotes - Page 13

• The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Kids, Fate

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• I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.

  Tony Bennett

  New York, Growing Up, Memories

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper credit and that's not true anymore - it used to be. A lot of jazz musicians would get respect in Europe.

  Andrew Bird

  Real, Europe, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

  Vince Gill

  Play, Inspire, Matter

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

  Laura Allen

  Brother, Dad, Play

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole new level.

  David Finckel

  Levels, Able, Century

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an almost maniacal, sometimes insane devotion and commitment to communication.

  David Finckel

  Art, Communication, Commitment

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• I would say that for the younger musicians, technical proficiency is necessary and a given these days. But the study and the way you function in society, your beliefs and the way you live, that is where you will find a real musician, a real artist.

  David Finckel

  Real, Artist, Way

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• I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the singers, to explore and expand your horizons.

  Wu Han

  Play, Horizon, Opera

  "David Finckel and Wu Han". Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk.

  Timothy B. Schmit

  Song, Father, Rock And Roll

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• Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship.

  Jake Holmes

  Levels, Wells, Schooled

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• Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away.

  Jake Holmes

  Sorry, Past, Records

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• Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.

  Jake Holmes

  Way, Slam

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• When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops.

  Kemp Muhl

  Style, Important, Feels

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.

  Marc Martel

  People, Kind, Problem

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.

  Nick Zinner

  Home, Past, Years

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

  Henry Rollins

  Play, Should

  "Henry Rollins says he won't be playing any "old music" - or maybe any music at all - any time soon" by Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 16, 2013.

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• What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity

  Pat Metheny

  Looks, Infinity

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• Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of Neil Slater, these great musicians have managed to combine small group "openness" with the swinging precision of a classic big band. Very enjoyable!

  Michael Brecker

  Texas, Groups, Band

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• Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.

  William Zinsser

  Art, Taken, Writing

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• Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't leaving being musician because I use to like it when noone came to see me playing, because I didn't feel any pressure. I can enjoy myself and probably play better. Sometimes when I play, people expect something of me, and I'm not always able to to that. Quite often. So I get totaly nervous

  Allan Holdsworth

  Play, People, Leaving

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• I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.

  Craig David

  Art, Morning, Thinking

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• When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

  Dave Matthews

  Community, Looks, Pay

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• In Old English they don't say I had a dream, but there's another usage of the word - "life is but a dream," to be corny about it. It's implied with eyes wide open, rather than asleep. But I'm not a philosopher to explain myself. I wish I could. Maybe that's why I'm a musician.

  Tom Verlaine

  Dream, Eye, Wish

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• I can't remember ever being really bored. I find life very interesting, actually. I think some other musicians are always looking for something to give them an idea, but I find I have to reject 90 percent of my ideas because they don't live up to some self-imposed standard. That's also why I don't make a record once a year. I throw so many things out, and I have to have something to say.

  Tom Verlaine

  Thinking, Self, Years

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