Musician Quotes - Page 20

• There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were bricklayers and carpenters and cigar makers and plasterers. Some had little businesses of their own -- coal and wood and vegetable stores. Some worked on the cotton exchange and some were porters. They had to work at other trades 'cause there were so many musicians, so many bands. It was the most musical town in the country.

  Zutty Singleton

  Country, Jobs, New Orleans

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• I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz players] stay in the clubs. Jazz must be accessible to everyone.

  Dee Dee Bridgewater

  Player, Numbers, Looks

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• What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you. I wanted to find a way to unlock the intensity of that, to recreate that unique perspective, first for the hundreds of people who attended the concert, and eventually for a much larger online audience.

  Chris Milk

  Unique, People, Perspective

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• When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

  Jack Welpott

  Trying, Cameras, Doe

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• When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s.

  David Bowie

  Musical, Sound, Electronics

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• All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

  Dolly Parton

  Piano, People, Grandpa

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• I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

  Dave Grohl

  Growing Up, Hero, Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 9, 2013.

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• 'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

  Dave Grohl

  Men, Ideas, Monsters

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• The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked
  was Paul McCartney.

  Freedy Johnston

  Sophisticated, Pops, Pop Music

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• Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and fans ... an incredible solo performer ... the creator of our favorite songs.

  Alec Baldwin

  Song, Rocks, Forever

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• I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.

  Herbie Hancock

  Looks, Standpoint, Humans

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• My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Father, Sides, Social Worker

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• My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

  Tommy Bolin

  School, My Family

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• I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

  Levon Helm

  Way

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• It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

  Marcus Miller

  Inspirational, Music, African American

  Interview with Eva Simontacchi, www.jazzitalia.net. April 10, 2005.

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• All musicians are potential band leaders.

  Thelonious Monk

  Leader, Band

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• I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

  Lester Bowie

  Mean, Firsts, Jazz

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• Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different.

  Slash

  Sex, Rocks, Hands

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• I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Thinking, Focus, Together

  "Beyoncé: artist of the decade". Interview With Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

  Robert Fripp

  Thinking, People, Facts

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• I think playing night after night is when you get a lot better as a musician because you need to add different levels of intensity and experiment a little bit with the existing songs just to keep everything interesting.

  James Walsh

  Song, Night, Thinking

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• I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.

  Joni Mitchell

  Grandmother, Two, Frustrated

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• A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.

  Shirley Manson

  Artist, Parent, Ends

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• I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.

  Lisa Loeb

  Writing, Asking Questions, Style

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• A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it.

  Peter Andre

  Clothes, Albums, Looks

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