Musician Quotes - Page 30

• William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Sound, Poet, My Favorite

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

  Questlove

  Hip Hop, Hips, Fans

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.

  Eyvind Kang

  Song, Creativity, Sacrifice

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.

  Grant Evans

  Hard Times, Talking, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm having to cope with the fact that some people might consider me a musician.

  Grant Evans

  People, Might, Facts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Learning how to record has been super empowering for me, because I spent so many years going into the studio and watching other people do it. I guess a lot of musicians have gone through this because now recording is really available for everybody.

  Julia Kent

  Years, People, Empowering

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, where I played a musician in an all-girl band. That movie is where I met my future ex-husband Jody Porter.

  Britta Phillips

  Girl, Husband, Trying

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book.

  Michael Azerrad

  Book, People, Legacy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

  Michael Azerrad

  Stories, Bunch, Preaching

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

  Blake Judd

  Writing, Thinking, Signatures

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

  Blake Judd

  Math, Thinking, Would Be

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

  Mark Kozelek

  Rocks, Levels, Touring

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• It was like an exponential weed. And people treated me as if I was an established musician. I wasn't.

  Jack Tatum

  Weed, People, Treated

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.

  Jack Tatum

  Writing, College, Wanted

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that I didn't work hard, but it wasn't like, "I'm going to be a musician."

  Jack Tatum

  Hard Work, Facts, Fortune

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.

  Kieran Hebden

  School, People, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've got this thing where I always kind of diss the older stuff and favor the newer stuff. I mean, it's not just my thing; every artist or musician is like that, I guess.

  Bradford Cox

  Mean, Artist, Favors

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.

  Bradford Cox

  Artist, Stuff, Given

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate caste system where it's like, "I'm the musician, you're the audience. Never the two shall meet." It was a case where it was like, "Hey, you know what? I'm on your level, man."

  Bradford Cox

  Men, Artist, Two

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

  Bradford Cox

  Trying, Taste, Shock

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come true is linked probably to the fact that I traveled a lot, which gave me an open mind and an ability to push my limits.

  Rokia Traore

  Dream, Mind, Singing

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because the audience is dancing or singing with us. That's the interesting part of the live show, actually, because everything is possible and everything can change.

  Rokia Traore

  Dancing, Interesting, Singing

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

  Beck

  Thinking, Trying, Way

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that had climbed up the totem pole of rock. They were encouraging words that struck a nerve with me and made me stronger.

  Lita Ford

  Giving Up, Moving, Rocks

  "The Runaways Rocker Lita Ford on "Living Like a Runaway". Interview with Jeff Doles, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 10, 2016.

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• I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who is willing to write or sing or play on a Lita song.

  Lita Ford

  Song, Writing, Play

  "Interview: The Runaways Rocker Lita Ford on 'Living Like a Runaway'". Interview with Jeff Doles, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 10, 2016.

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