Musician Quotes - Page 28

• I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.

  Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Touring

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• My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Growing Up, Father, Doctors

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

  Adam McKay

  People, Directors, Hollywood

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I feel so lucky to have found two other, now three other musicians, that I can absolutely communicate with musically and believe in what they're doing almost 100% of the time. I've talked to a few [other] people in bands and that just isn't always the case.

  Theresa Wayman

  Believe, Two, People

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• We'd be recording and I'd go down to Greenpoint where Rostam was living and track stuff... It was a busy time. I felt like in general, I was just super psyched with the prospect of getting to be a musician, that it became a thing that I would think about more than I would think about my studies and stuff like that. I still did fine, but it was an interesting time in my life.

  Chris Baio

  Thinking, Track, Interesting

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• Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if it's an orchestra, two bluegrass banjo pickers, a solo singer, piano player, or Bruce Springsteen - when it all comes together, you can just feel as if you are a part of something bigger and grander than yourself.

  Patrick Fabian

  Player, Two, Piano

  "Actor Patrick Fabian: The power of live music and being connected to emotions". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, patrickfabian.com.

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• I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

  Ben Sollee

  Roles, Care, Storyteller

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• I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live shows. The opportunities for an artist today are totally different.

  Ben Sollee

  Artist, Opportunity, Different

  "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.

  Eric Weiner

  Air, Practice, People

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.

  Douglas Booth

  Grandparent, Firsts, Jazz

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician.

  Jazmine Sullivan

  Mom, Creative, Playwright

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• So, I mean, there's still vast swaths of the city that are suffering from a lack of jobs and poor housing and poor public schools, but they are building momentum - you know, techies, foodies, artists, musicians, all coming to Detroit. So there is this vibrancy. You see it in the newspapers every day - some story about the new Detroit.

  David Maraniss

  Jobs, School, Mean

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• Dave Guy, the trumpet player, is an incredible musician. He came into the studio one day, and they had just cut a cover of "Sign, Seal, Deliver" for something with Sharon Jones, and I just was blown away by how they got that sonic. I mean, it was just so much the real deal.

  Mark Ronson

  Real, Mean, Cutting

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.

  Erin Willett

  Artist, Thinking, Talent

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I rented a summer home in the winter on Long Island, I took long walks, and then I ended up moving to Woodstock. It was a fertile musical area and time, and I played with a lot of different musicians there, including getting into women's music, and I ended up playing with Cris Williamson.

  June Millington

  Summer, Moving, Home

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

  Glenn Branca

  Rocks, Desire, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an art student. I also studied the visual arts at Lancaster University. I then decided to become an actor as he was becoming a musician. And then as an actor/performer, we have similar sort of interests - music hall and that whole world. So, there's a lot that I felt connected with.

  Andy Serkis

  Art, Father, Son

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We're doing all the shows as an eight-piece band. There's so many different kinds of palettes for each film that we've had to find a balance of musicians who can shift from one instrument to another to make all those sounds for us come to life.

  Stuart A. Staples

  Eight, Balance, Sound

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.

  Paul Lansky

  Thinking, Interesting, Wife

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Film, Reason

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just look up to anyone who made music back then because you really had to be a musician. There were no samples or drum machines. Those people back in the day paved the way for people like me.

  Rahki

  People, Looks, Machines

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians all the time.

  Margaret Cho

  Song, Hate, Hard Times

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 3, 2016.

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• I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.

  Aphex Twin

  Thinking, People, Used

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've heard of people stopping their cars, having car wrecks, all kinds of things. But most of the banjo players I know had that moment when they heard Earl Scruggs. So, for me, it transcends the technique. It's the musician in him and his personality, his musical personality, such great taste, such great technique, very, very creative.

  Earl Scruggs

  Player, People, Car

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• I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.

  Loren Mazzacane Connors

  Simple, Player, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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