Musician Quotes - Page 25

• The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.

  E.S. Russell

  Clay, Potters, Harps

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• I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Zooey Deschanel Wants You To Know That She's Not Katy Perry" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. April 01, 2009.

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• If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wine, Heart, Broken

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• To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be a musician is a gift - a gift from Nature. There is no great merit in us except in loving this gift with respect and devotion and doing everything possible to honor that gift by work and more work. We must work with conviction and humility, searching for beauty, simplicity, and the Truth. And it is for us musicians to do all in our power for a better world. Music must carry the message of beauty, of love and of peace.

  Pablo Casals

  Humility, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.

  Dave Barry

  People, Twenties, Needs

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• To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Details, Professionalism, Infinite

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• We try to make each situation specific to the person. At the beginning of the season, we come up with, like, 50 to 100 ideas, which we workshop and then we call around to see who is interested in doing something like that. Once we find the people, we make the bid specific to them. A lot of it is about where you can get people to go physically, which is a little tricky because most actors and musicians are kind of hermits-they like to stay in their houses.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Ideas, People, House

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• To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

  Keith Richards

  Silence, Canvas, Songwriters

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• I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, Sound, Shapes

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• A lot of people live with no apparent means of support. I kind of envy the musicians up there. You're down here, busting your ass in Hollywood, and it's like Lily Tomlin's joke about the rat race - all you prove in the end is that you're a rat.

  Kurt Voss

  Mean, Race, People

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I don't think being a musician makes me a role model at all. But I do believe that I have responsibility to offer people a helping hand when and if I can, just the same way that others have helped me. I think that it's important to keep that cycle going, and to give back to whatever your personal definition of community is.

  Thalia Zedek

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Bored, Wanderers

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Ghetto, Community, Brooklyn

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

  Seymour Stein

  Stars, Rocks, Tchaikovsky

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from the story. It's like if a painter sees a beautiful scene and he paints it. If he's in his home it's not the same.

  Claudio Simonetti

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Home

  Source: thequietus.com

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• One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.

  Erol Alkan

  Past, Opportunity, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

  Erol Alkan

  Zero, Next, Lovers

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous.

  Moby

  New York, Growing Up, Artist

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent - and I can't really complain because I'm sort of bourgeois and affluent myself, but I like living in a place where artists and musicians and writers can actually pay the rent.

  Moby

  New York, Drinking, Artist

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

  Moby

  Envy, Used, Has Beens

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record contract. So even if every person on the planet loathes me, I have nothing to complain about. My job is not a bad job, so I can't complain.

  Moby

  Jobs, Night, Play

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.

  Moby

  Actors, Saving, Entitlement

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.

  Moby

  Careers, People, Actors

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician.

  Tim Hecker

  Downloads

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!

  Grimes

  Successful, Thinking, Guitar

  Source: thequietus.com

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