Musician Quotes - Page 23

• It's funny how film is the slowest art form to adapt to freedom. It's had freedom all along. It could've done whatever it wanted to. You know the same freedom that do-it-yourself punk and post-punk musicians had in the late 70s and ever since. That's about the time I started getting interested in film, and I assumed that film would be moving along with the other pop culture forms. Its finally done it but it's taken decades for it to catch up just to basement band level.

  Guy Maddin

  Art, Moving, Taken

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When I started making films I just decided "I'm the filmmaking equivalent of a garage band and I'll just make my garage band movies." But even the same musicians from garage bands would go to my movies and you could tell what they liked from the way that they dressed and they would be the first ones to walk out.

  Guy Maddin

  Would Be, Band, Way

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow was strictly English, and he was editor of the newspaper there. He shook my hand after I got off the train and said, "Hello, Satchmo." So right away my trombone player said, "Mmm, the man thinks you have mo' mouth than Satchel Mouth." So I was stuck with it, and it turned out all right.

  Louis Armstrong

  Player, Men, Thinking

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.

  Louis Armstrong

  Play, Chance

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• I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a way, and certainly the experience of falling in love, I think, defies words, which is why poets, painters, musicians, actors have tried to describe that feeling, writers have just tried to put words to that.

  Cate Blanchett

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Feelings

  "Cate Blanchett talks to 7.30 about her new movie and marriage equality". "7.30" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. December 18, 2015.

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• Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

  Squarepusher

  Thinking, Demise, Stereotype

  Source: thequietus.com

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• My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

  Yngwie Malmsteen

  Mom, Guitar, Seven

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• I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

  Yngwie Malmsteen

  Sacrifice, Thinking

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• I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that you have to do it like a musician. You have to learn the language before you can learn to be a novelist.

  Paul Reed Smith

  Hero, Guitar, Novelists

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• I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could possibly be as a musician. More so they really want you to stick to something.

  Kid Ink

  Artist, People, Creative

  Source: bestfan.com

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• More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

  Rosanne Cash

  Folks, Folk Music, Values

  "The essential Rosanne Cash". Interview with Bob Gendron, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 16, 2012.

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• Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Fire, Attention

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Yeah, we try to get the best musicians possible, and Justin [Robinson] is a great musician, man, a great player. You must have been surprised to see him out there, then.

  Common

  Player, Men, Trying

  Source: aalbc.com

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• It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

  Jack White

  Hard

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• Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician.

  Charlie Worsham

  Country, Opportunity, Honor

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• I don't understand how a musician can play 90 minutes on stage and then not dedicate a little bit of time to hang out at their merch table. It's not like digging a ditch or something; you're standing there thanking people for coming out to see you.

  Aaron Watson

  Play, People, Digging

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• Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.

  Corey Smith

  People, Austin, Athens

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• People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

  PJ Harvey

  People, Want

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• I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.

  Chaka Khan

  Song, Ira, Great Music

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• But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

  Jonny Lang

  Serious, Needed, Prove

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• I always knew I wanted to be a musician.

  Jonny Lang

  Wanted

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• I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.

  Jonny Lang

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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• I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early Twenties. If you take a look at some of the old pictures of Chick Webb, then you will see the flute right there on the bandstand among the woodwinds.

  Yusef Lateef

  African American, Flutes, Twenties

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• God makes something special and unique about each person that sets them apart from every other person, and to me that's is what artistry is about, whether you are a plumber, a pinter, a musician whatever it is that is unique about you that is translated into your art.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Art, Unique, Special

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• I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

  Martha Wainwright

  Fun, School, College

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