Musician Quotes - Page 32

• If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Artist, Giving, Chess

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Track, Choices, Fundamentals

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When you say what is the difference between me and my stage name the idea is that as a musician you always think of yourself as inhabiting a certain cultural space in the kind of a cultural landscape, so when I say cultural space what I mean to imply there is that you exist within certain parameters of how people think of culture.

  DJ Spooky

  Mean, Thinking, Names

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A lot of the people that I photograph are master musicians themselves, whether they're singers or great jazz players and it's kind of fun to figure out who they came up with and who they emulated or who they idolized actually.

  Carol Friedman

  Fun, Player, People

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that."

  Carol Friedman

  Looks, Wow, Jazz

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

  Doc Childre

  Beauty, Jazz, Adaptability

  Doc Lew Childre, Bruce Cryer (2000). “From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance”, p.192, HeartMath

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• He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Doctors, Singing, Want

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• Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

  Carl Orr

  Majority, Failing, Aim

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• I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

  Carl Orr

  Self, Helping, Pity

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• Your development as a musician will come to an eventual standtill if you do not develop yourself as a human being. Only by having a creative, expansive and inspiring life can you create creative, expansive and inspiring music.

  Carl Orr

  Creative, Development, Humans

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• It's important to respect and exhaustively study the masters of music, but as you grow and develop it's important to use their discoveries, not as a final destination but as a catalyst for your original ideas.

  Carl Orr

  Ideas, Discovery, Important

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• What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.

  Sinead O'Connor

  People, Giving, Soothing

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• He [Johnny Cash] was so fragile. We invaded Iraq in March, and he died in September. And because his health was so fragile, he couldn't take the controversy of making a public statement against the war. He knew that people were rabid. They attacked me mercilessly after I did the press conference with Musicians United to Win Without War. He knew that he couldn't tolerate that.

  Rosanne Cash

  War, Winning, Iraq

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• I'm not talking about what came later [after the American underground punk scene], indie music, or whatever you want to call it, but the music that came before that - that's an important story. So many interviews with musicians get the time or context wrong. You have these older bands, usually men, who tell stories about "Oh, we got into this huge fight, this guy punched that guy," that's the wrong sort of story. My view of the time is truly pioneering.

  Ian MacKaye

  Fighting, Men, Talking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Fun, Mind, Speak

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am lucky to have the greatest band and when you add a symphony orchestra to the mix it brings all of my songs to a whole new level. I wouldn't say I really change what I do but, having those talented musicians behind me, along with my band, really makes the songs so much bigger and more fun to sing.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Fun, Symphony

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• When I lived in New York, there wasn't as much TV or film around. I got asked to do a couple of indie films, just based on me being from The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle. I did a couple of indie movies from Japan and one from Canada, and I thought it was an exciting, fun thing to do. I had a great time doing it, it was just that, in New York, there really wasn't as much. My studio in New York closed, so I moved out to L.A. and just started looking into composing as another thing to do, as a musician. I like it a lot. It's fun and it's a different way of thinking about music.

  James Iha

  New York, Couple, Fun

  "James Iha on Scoring James Franco’s ‘Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 17, 2016.

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• I like the idea of being a student, and I play with very good musicians. So playing with them allows me to get better. My aim is to get better, but I really love it for its own sake.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Play, Ideas, Get Better

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

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• One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.

  Eric Fischl

  Sports, Art, Athlete

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Europe, Literature, Jazz

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.

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• I was at a time of my life of making choices, I suppose: am I a writer, am I a visual artist? And when I was a teenager. I thought I would be a film-maker. Am I a musician? If so, what kind of musician am I?

  David Toop

  Teenager, Artist, Choices

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• We [with David Cunningham] did do Top Of The Pops. It was an eye-opener. I mean, one of the things that was so interesting - I've talked about this a few times recently, and people can't believe it - they used to do this thing called tape switch with the Musicians Union.

  David Toop

  Believe, Mean, Eye

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The Musicians Union declared you couldn't mime on Top Of The Pops, which is obviously impossible, if you've got a studio-based record that you'd worked on for a year or something. And there were a lot of terrible performances. Because on Top Of The Pops, you were just thrown onstage.

  David Toop

  Years, Unions, Records

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I certainly know guys in comedy, I know some actors, and I definitely know some musicians, who have survived to a certain age and make a good living doing what they do, but nobody knows who they are. They wake up every day and they have the ability to get paid practicing their art, but underneath it all, if you scratched the surface, you still get, "If I only had my own show . . .," or "If I only had my own band . . ." It's what people always do when they want to be their own star.

  Denis Leary

  Art, Stars, People

  "Denis Leary on ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 and Playing Johnny Rock". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2016.

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