Musician Quotes - Page 14

• Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

  Celia Thaxter

  Flower, Lovers, Poet

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books

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• Being an American musician means being adventurous.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Mean, Adventurous

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• I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

  A. R. Rahman

  Together, Culture, Classical Music

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• Isn't my music the last of the real rhythm and blues? Isn't it great? It's because of my musicians, we were weaned on Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, all the founding fathers, the gods of thunder, who invented the foundation and the pulse of the greatest music in the world!

  Ted Nugent

  Father, Real, Water

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• A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.

  Marlo Morgan

  Needs, Instruments, Carrie

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

  Ani DiFranco

  Hate, Mind, Connections

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded.

  Steven Price

  Self, Sitting, Rooms

  Source: collider.com

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• As comedians, we have the opportunity to convey a message that will have an effect. The best can make you laugh and cry, the way musicians and actors can.

  Jay Pharoah

  Opportunity, Laughing, Comedian

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career. Not only are they just great, nice guys; they're some of the best musicians you're likely to find. They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It's amazing.

  Al Yankovic

  Nice, Rap, Gangsta

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.

  Cillian Murphy

  Taken, Ambition, Age

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Then, at age 20, I discovered theater sort of by accident. Quite quickly, theater became more important to me than music. I began to realize that maybe my talents as a musician were quite limited, or had a ceiling to them, whereas acting seemed to sort of stretch before me. I got very passionate about it very quickly.

  Cillian Murphy

  Important, Age, Acting

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a brush, acting is us. Our energy, our soul, our spirits. And it's so hard because it's so vul­nerable. You're exposing everything.

  Jane Fonda

  Soul, Musical, Acting

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". Interview by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.

  Allie Gonino

  Kids, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

  Hank Azaria

  Rocks, Magic, Special

  "The Hilarious Hank Azaria". Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

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• I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it.

  Anton Corbijn

  Thinking, Important, Gone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.

  Weyes Blood

  Female, Twisted, Victim

  "An Older, Wiser Weyes Blood". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2014.

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• A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.

  Weyes Blood

  Past, Female, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.

  Geoff Rickly

  People, Proud, Festivals

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

  Joey Tempest

  Names, Example, Cards

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A good song and good musicians can really move mountains.

  Joey Tempest

  Song, Moving, Mountain

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

  T Bone Burnett

  Eight, Practice, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.

  T Bone Burnett

  Art, Advancement, Care

  Source: collider.com

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• People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they decide to make art. The technology that people are working with now will be replaced in 10 years, so that's not where your future is, if you're a musician.

  T Bone Burnett

  Art, Technology, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an artist in that way. I want people to be part of the music as they listen, but I also want them to think: What was that?

  Jenny Hval

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

  AraabMuzik

  Writing, Play, Piano

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.

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