Musician Quotes - Page 35

• I am a session guy and a studio musician and whatever you need me to do I will do it.

  Marco Mendoza

  Guy, Needs, Session

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look.

  Ry Cooder

  Looks, Tradition, Great Music

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Musicians are not so concerned with language.

  Ry Cooder

  Language, Concerned

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

  Ry Cooder

  Way, Communicate, Rely

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

  Ry Cooder

  Beautiful, Tunes, Great Music

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There actually had been a tradition within English music of the '60s of people looking eastwards, maybe in quite a naïve way, but nonetheless, you had musicians like George Harrison or Bryan Jones recording the musicians of Joujouka in North Africa.

  Justin Adams

  People, Way, Tradition

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Going to the Sahara Desert and meeting the Touareg band Tinariwen was a life-changing experience. All through that time, I have just carried on learning and meeting musicians, and I keep finding links between different forms.

  Justin Adams

  Life Changing, Different, Desert

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In London, the most, the biggest thing we have is culture, you know what I mean? That's what we've done for the past 50, 60 100 years, this is what we've done. My worry is that that will change but actually, that will never change because musicians will just go somewhere else.

  Kate Tempest

  Mean, Past, Years

  "Personality Clash: Kate Tempest x Loyle Carner". www.clashmusic.com. May 10, 2016.

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• I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

  Cass McCombs

  Writing, Folks, Folk Music

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

  Cass McCombs

  Thinking, Play, Instruments

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be coaxed out of them, it has nothing to do with the phases of the moon or even how they feel that day. They go on stage and start playing. Being creative is their job.

  John Kao

  Teacher, Jobs, Creativity

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good, that can be followed by the other musicians and that the audience enjoys. You cannot do that without first acquiring skills.

  John Kao

  Skills, Want, Firsts

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only there to make sure that happens. That is a very different type of management mind-set.

  John Kao

  Play, Leader, Mind

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.

  John Kao

  Risk, Tunes, Jazz

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar.

  Lola Kirke

  Girl, Growing Up, Dad

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 2016.

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• Even though I was performing all the time as an actress and I was doing all of these plays as a kid, there's a vulnerability about being a musician that you don't get [when] you perform somebody else's work.

  Lola Kirke

  Kids, Play, Actresses

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 2016.

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• There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor.

  Lola Kirke

  Actors, Natural

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 2016.

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• I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.

  Lola Kirke

  Artist, Trying, Actors

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 2016.

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• I think all musicians and producers, they know the real goal is to come up with a record that is entertaining and not boring, that's the goal. I think if everyone agrees that that's the goal then it doesn't matter who's the band and it doesn't matter who's the producer. It just means that that you try to realise the ambition no matter what the situation is or who the people are.

  Black Francis

  Real, Ambition, Mean

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I have got to look at the flip side of things, because, in a way, music is always a conversation, you know? It's a conversation between the musician and their tools and their technologies.

  DJ /rupture

  Technology, Way, Flip

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do.

  Theodora Goss

  Art, Writing, Dancer

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was also an influx of western culture, art, and literature in the '60s and '70s.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Art, Cities, Intellectual

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• The only advice we gave Richie Faulkner was we wanted Richie to be his own guy. You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.

  Rob Halford

  Guy, Advice, Band

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, Rock Music, Unpredictable

  Source: collider.com

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• I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Parent, Balance, Intertwined

  Source: collider.com

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