Musician Quotes - Page 26

• Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

  Roddy Woomble

  Artist, Scotland, Actors

  Source: thequietus.com

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• What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.

  Neil Peart

  Dream, Looks, Cymbals

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The idea of actually taking sharp turns left and right has always intrigued me, but I've never really been bold enough to do that. As musicians go, I've allowed myself to be carried by other people's enthusiasm into places where I've learned a lot. There is no real tumult anymore. What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.

  Robert Plant

  Real, Ideas, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• People run away, pull their hair, go off in different directions, nodding their heads and going, "Oh, God." I am slightly disheveled, I think. I'm really pleased that I am, because otherwise I could be in a really, really dull and boring place now, as a musician, at least.

  Robert Plant

  Running, Thinking, Hair

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind. There are also certain musicians I love whose music and styles inspire me.

  Birdy

  People, Inspire, Style

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Thinking, Trying, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can choose not to be a performing musician. You can choose to just be a recording artist. But then you run into the problem of trying to earn a living and balancing the time that you spend working on your creative efforts to just getting the bills paid. You can go off the grid and live in a cabin and make whatever art you want and also provide all the sustenance you need and not interact with anybody else.

  Mirah

  Running, Art, Effort

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm African American, I'm a lot of other things, a musician and an artist. But that woman part holds the most pain for me. And therefore, obviously, the most lessons.

  India.Arie

  Pain, Artist, African American

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• It feels like we've grown enough as musicians over the last few years to go new places, and our conceptual and compositional abilities have developed along with it, so we're pushing all the envelopes we can at the same time and it still feels like cutting edge work to us. It seems to resonate with people.

  Bent Saether

  Cutting, Years, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We've known each other [in Motorpsycho ] since 1985 or '86, are really different as personalities, and yet have actually never disagreed to any degree. We are really complimentary as musicians and songwriters too, and come from two total opposites in our approaches.

  Bent Saether

  Opposites, Two, Personality

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

  Moby

  East, Records, Sides

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going on to sell a lot of copies of the record. Especially if you look at the pop climate.

  Moby

  Climate, East, Looks

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana.

  Moby

  Successful, Being Real, Enemy

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.

  Mirah

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

  David Bowie

  Hippie, Thinking, Somewhere Else

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.

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• Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.

  Carlos Alomar

  Lost, Blah, Dialogue

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.

  Valerie June

  Song, Mean, Roots

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think every musician is different, every artist is different, and in a perfect world people would be able to pursue their own path and have the inspiration and the drive to, and the energy and dedication to take their path to its fruition. I don't really believe in formulas.

  Emily Haines

  Inspiration, Believe, Thinking

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

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• I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

  Neko Case

  Jobs, People, Good Job

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• Most of the EDM tracks right now are not very musical, they have one note that keeps playing. You really don't need to be a musician to do records like this, so I think me playing guitar for so many years and listening to rock 'n' roll and real music helps me when I work with vocalists like Lana Del Ray and Miley Cyrus.

  Cedric Gervais

  Real, Thinking, Rocks

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• There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.

  Stephen Malkmus

  People, Like You, Reason

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Mean, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and cutting something immediately if it doesn't feel true. I come from a family of musicians and - while I have no musical abilities of my own - I think I inherited a good ear.

  Mary J. Miller

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

  Dean Wareham

  Technology, Scary, Doe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams. Sexy plays. [For musicians] there are so many that it's hard just to say one. Certain things, like the first time you hear A Love Supreme, you're floored. It takes whatever you were listening to and blows a hole in it.

  Annie E. Clark

  Sexy, Kids, Blow

  Source: www.avclub.com

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