Musician Quotes - Page 34

• My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party.

  Ai Weiwei

  Party, Views, Names

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Style, Groups, Bars

  "Born To Run". Book by Bruce Springsteen, 2009.

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• Freddie [Highmore] is great in the movie [August Rush]. It comes out this Fall and I play a young cellist, a prodigy, who is touring and doing concerts. She's very young and has a one-night fling with an Irish rocker, played Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who is also a really talented musician.

  Keri Russell

  Fall, Night, August

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.

  Paul Morley

  Opening Up, Groups, World

  Source: www.chaoscontrol.com

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• It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

  Scott McClanahan

  Writing, People, Stories

  "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.

  Van Morrison

  Two, Style, Trying

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• [Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

  Van Morrison

  Cutting, Rocks, Jazz

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.

  Van Morrison

  Mean, Rocks, Play

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Rocks, Long, Rock N Roll

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that. It's about leaving the bad vibes and going to where the good vibes are.

  Charlie Puth

  Bad Vibes, Leaving, Important

  "Charlie Puth's Reason For Being Obsessed With Alicia Keys Will Make You Say, 'Heck Yes'". Interview With Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. September 7, 2016.

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• My mom and grandfather are my first teachers of music. Those experiences and the process of exploring music as a discipline through them and with them is one of the main foundations of my life as musician.

  Guillermo E. Brown

  Mom, Teacher, Discipline

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because I'm a musician aspiring to write good stuff and put on good shows, I'm hyperaware of what they're doing and what they're putting out. But listening now in a less critical way, I'm appreciating and admiring it even more.

  Sarah Harmer

  Writing, Appreciate, Listening

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Differences, People, Peers

  Eric Hobsbawm (2014). “The Jazz Scene”, p.296, Faber & Faber

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• I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resulting from this union will not be the random conclusion of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of the same thought.

  Arthur Honegger

  Dream, Thinking, Two

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• I feel like if you compare yourself to other successful musicians you will never be successful, because there will always be someone above you who has done something more or done something first or done something better.

  Thomston

  Successful, Done, Firsts

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• My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up. He started out distributing films from India here in the '70s because there was no place to go for people to watch movies from the homeland. So he developed a network of actors, writers, directors, and musicians that became his friends and that he would tour around the country with, doing stage shows of the musical numbers from their films.

  Meera Menon

  Country, Growing Up, Dad

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I've been very fortunate, because I've cooked for a lot of actors and actresses and musicians. I've cooked for presidents and I've been to the White House.

  Emeril Lagasse

  White, House, President

  "Emeril Lagasse on Julia Child and the time Frank Sinatra stole his silverware". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I'm in a very good place now because I do theater, I do TV and I make movies. I was a dancer, so I dance a little bit. I was a musician, so I do a little bit of music. And I do all of this in four or five different languages, and all over the world.

  Richard Sammel

  Dancer, Different, World

  Source: collider.com

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• It was actually the production group that ended up producing the show for us...Every musician, especially in the hip-hop community, you always make these show recaps or vlogs, and essentially what "Touring's Boring" was is, we tried to make our vlogs interesting and almost more like a TV show. That's how we got discovered by TV.

  Mike Stud

  Tv Shows, Interesting, Hip Hop

  "Interview: Mike Stud turns reality TV star in 'This Is Mike Stud'". Interview with Brittany Frederick, www.axs.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.

  Frank Zappa

  Just One

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• If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.

  will.i.am

  Coders, Want, Computer

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to be a musician. I lost everything I had, but I just knew that someday I'd be able to tell the world to 'go big or go home.' The world needs to know.

  Derek Waters

  Home, Kids, Needs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I noticed a lot of bands always having a few people in the band being interested in recording and audio production, so I got the idea to create products that would appeal to them. Rather than create tools that only engineers could understand, I designed tools that any musician could use and get instant great sounding results.

  Joey Sturgis

  Ideas, People, Audio

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I’m not saying that maybe there isn’t a kid out there whose behavior hasn’t been influenced by me in some way. I’m sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you’d asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I’d admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that’d be a yes, totally.

  Pete Doherty

  Kids, People, Afar

  "New Again: Pete Doherty". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2016.

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• When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have to be this thing where I go out and I'm like candy-striping, or becoming a therapist or something. I think that maybe, maybe I'm supposed to [be a musician], because of that fact.

  Anthony Green

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.billboard.com

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