Musician Quotes - Page 38

• Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with painting, I'm on my own. I find it quite easy to switch heads and I enjoy both the mayhem of being on tour and the serenity of being alone in my art studio.

  Horace Panter

  Art, Player, Careers

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• Daniel Handler's a writer, musician and the author of, among other things, the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" books. He also wrote the TV version of the books that is available now on Netflix. As said, I recommend both media for this story.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Media, Events

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• For better or for worse, I think my approach to jazz is very traditional, in one sense, but is [also] very out of fashion today. It's about the musicians, and it's about that magic that happens in the moment.

  Jose James

  Fashion, Thinking, Magic

  Source: revive-music.com

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• I go by the "Miles Davis school of production and band-leading", where you pick the best musicians you can, you provide them with a minimum of direction, and you just let the music happen. I've seen it work time and time again.

  Jose James

  School, Band, Miles

  Source: revive-music.com

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• For me, the difference between a musician reading an arrangement on a piece of paper, and them closing their eyes and listening to what's happening around them and responding to it, is huge.

  Jose James

  Reading, Eye, Differences

  Source: revive-music.com

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• There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's - but I used to study with Junior Mance, and he would tell me about Bradley's. It was a very important place for a generation of jazz musicians in New York. It was really all about pianists there.

  Jose James

  New York, Important, Generations

  Source: revive-music.com

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• For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five thousand Facebook followers. You didn't have to worry about every club, every venue you play, where the venues say well you know can you put up this video, put up that Facebook, put up... Nowadays it's really like you just can't be a musician alone.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Thinking, Artist, Play

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Want, Hard

  Source: somedayprods.com

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• People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky. It's a combination of right time, right place and having certain genes or a gimmick or whatever, but it's really not anything more than sugar. It tastes good and goes away fast.

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, Player, Rocks

  Source: www.noise11.com

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• If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Smart, Hobbies, Lucky

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

  Bruno Mars

  Grew Up, Grew, Music Is

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite daunting when you're musicians.

  Tracey Thorn

  Together, Band, Records

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I wish I could say differently, but I really don't think so. There are too many musicians already for probably anyone to be noticed without some sort of commercial support. Even the most talented ones drown in a sea of mediocrity, and only the politically correct ones will ever be promoted (willingly...) by the press anyhow.

  Varg Vikernes

  Thinking, Sea, Support

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• The thing is, autism is a big spectrum. Going from folks who remain nonverbal, all the way up to, ya know, famous scientists and musicians. And we've got to work on strengths. We also have to work on teaching basic manners and skills.

  Temple Grandin

  Teaching, Skills, Autism

  Source: www.kshb.com

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• A good song is a good song, and good musicians can play all different styles.

  John Doe

  Song, Play, Style

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Lying, Player, Artist

  "Bruce Springsteen teases fans with foreword to autobiography Born to Run", www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2016.

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• By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at that time about what I was going to do or where I was going. I was a musician. I was going to play. I had a band. We were going to make enough money to survive on.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Play, Parent, Doubt

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

  Bruce Springsteen

  New York, Artist, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What stood me in good stead was my upbringing. I had a musician father, a very religious mother who totally supported us. My mom gave me my moral code which, even if I was bad, I wasn't bad for very long. If you're born and raised Catholic, it stays with you a lifetime. It's a good thing to have. My dad gave me a very professional attitude to the music business, and for that I thank them 100%.

  Suzi Quatro

  Mom, Mother, Religious

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• I would tell anyone, pick the person you love the most, the musician, the actor, public figure, whatever, and watch a bunch of their interviews and find ones where they talk about all the times they've failed, all the times they weren't good enough, and watch those on the regular. It's a very unique type of inspiration. It's almost like spiritual jumper cables for your inner drive.

  Lilly Singh

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Unique

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• If you're a Brit you kinda get used to people being cold and aloof and just generally arrogant - particularly musicians. (Compared to Londoners New Yorkers are a walk in the park!)

  Thea Gilmore

  People, Arrogant, Parks

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have a food show.It's not just baseball people. It's a mixture of baseball people, actors, musicians, chefs and whatnot. They bring out different dishes, and at the end of the show, I give the one I like the most the "Fielder's choice." It's good TV.

  Prince Fielder

  Baseball, People, Giving

  Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

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• I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.

  Steve Young

  Song, Boys, Guitar

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• After seeing what I have seen on my journey, my advice to upcoming musicians would have to be... always have your vision in sight. Do music the way you envisioned yourself doing music no matter what it cost.

  Chronixx

  Journey, Sight, Advice

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• Krishna consciousness was especially good for me because I didn't get the feeling that I'd have to shave my head, move into a temple, and do it full time. So it was a spiritual thing that just fit in with my life-style. I could still be a musician, but I just changed my consciousness, that's all.

  George Harrison

  Spiritual, Moving, Feelings

  Interview with Mukunda Goswami, September 4, 1982.

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