Musician Quotes - Page 16

• Berlin seems like a place of healing to me though: you have both the Holocaust Memorial and Hiroshima Strasse side-by-side there. You have the whole last century libraried and you can see exactly what we did. Now there's lots of artists and musicians moving there because they can't afford the rent in London and New York, and they're having children and making it a gentle place. It seems to be a place of hope now.

  Robert Montgomery

  New York, Children, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

  Kim Basinger

  Dad, First Love, Thinking

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life because he'd have ended up a dead musician, with all the crazy stuff they did on Rush Street back in the day.

  Kim Basinger

  Dad, Crazy, War

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.

  Stephen Bruner

  Play, Ears

  "Thundercat’s Touching Bass". Interview with Tempe Nakiska, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

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• You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline.

  Dallas Campbell

  Thinking, Discipline, Cinema

  Source: collider.com

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• You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.

  Itzhak Perlman

  "Itzhak Perlman: I'm Not On The Stage To Walk, I'm On It To Play". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 27, 2015.

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• So if you can make it through, you know you've got something good, you can handle anything. We've been blessed to grow but at the same time, the hard part is having to wear every single hat. It's exhausting, but it's entirely worth it because on the flip side, the best part about being a touring musician is being a touring musician.

  Lizzo

  Blessed, Flip, Sides

  "Lizzo’s Big Moment". Interview with Lea Weatherby, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 15, 2014.

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• When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

  Clint Eastwood

  Regret, Looks, Ruined

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• I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

  Dave Douglas

  Thinking, Want, Jazz

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• As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creativity, Surrender, Music Business

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.21, Penguin

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• Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

  Kenny Werner

  Sky, Music Is, Ifs

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

  Keith Jarrett

  Sorry, Clever, Voice

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• They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

  Michelle Shocked

  Movement, Way, Firsts

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• I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Beautiful, Thinking, White

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

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• I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.

  Noel Gallagher

  Drunk, Insult

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• Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous.

  Dallas Clayton

  Basketball, Writing, Player

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• Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know

  Gregory Isaacs

  Sweet, Nice, Artist

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• Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

  Hector Berlioz

  Art, Inspiration, May

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• I did exactly what I wanted to do. It was always my intention to put a band together and be a band and not be about the solo pop guy. That was never me. All of the musicians that made me do what I wanted to do were bands. I didn't see it any other way.

  Chris Daughtry

  Guy, Together, Band

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• What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

  Keith Richards

  Tombstone, Old Things, Water

  "Like a Rolling Stone / Bands influenced by Mick and the boys" by James Sullivan,, www.sfgate.com. November 03, 2002.

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• If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that we caught long before. So thanks to them, thanks to all you guys. You opened doors that I don't think would have been opened in my lifetime. When white America started paying attention to the blues - it started opening a lot of doors that had been closed to us.

  B. B. King

  Thinking, White, America

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• I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

  Tom Felton

  Song, Band, Pieces

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• In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Ancient, Great Music, Prophet

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria

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• For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Way, Music Is, Best Way

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.80, Shambhala Publications

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• I think music piracy is forcing many people to look at the live aspect of the record industry as an income and in many ways that's what sets apart good music and musicians from the fly by night pop sensations.

  Ben Howard

  Thinking, Night, People

  Source: innerearmedia.wordpress.com

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