Musician Quotes - Page 17

• If I wasn't a musician... I think I'd just be endlessly traveling.

  Ben Howard

  Thinking, Ifs

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• When a musician is conveying that fresh feeling, that's what appeals to me, even more so than the style.

  Joseph Trapanese

  Feelings, Style, Appeals

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• The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Acting

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• The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Thinking, Play, Would Be

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• People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Stars, Rocks, Order

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• We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

  Eddie Vedder

  Stars, Rocks, Trying

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• I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.

  John Cusack

  Light, People, Effort

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• It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Writing, Keys, People

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• I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

  Bill Wyman

  Play, Bass

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• I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

  Jill Scott

  Luxury, Waiting, Actors

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• Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.

  Stewart Copeland

  Thinking, Horizon, Drummer

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• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  Ian Anderson

  Taken, Rocks, Income

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• I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Men, Thinking, Offering

  Yehudi Menuhin (1978). “Unfinished journey”

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• Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Essence, Technique, Able

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• My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

  Ziggy Marley

  Independent, Artist, Decision

  "The 'Marley' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.theskanner.com. April 23, 2012.

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• 'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.

  Ziggy Marley

  Fun, Inspiration, People

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

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• And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Ambition, Thinking

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• ...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Revenge, Expectations

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• I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.

  Henry Rollins

  Hero, Unique, Hands

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• I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

  Henry Rollins

  Spinal Tap, Annie Hall, Way

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• Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

  Henry Rollins

  Hair, Play, One Day

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• Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

  Henry Rollins

  Brilliant, Drummer, Natural

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• Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

  Henry Rollins

  Texas, Band, Good Bands

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• Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

  Henry Rollins

  Fans, Able, Sometimes

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• Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Reeds, World

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