Musician Quotes - Page 5

• As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it...it's a humbling experience.

  Mark Knopfler

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!

  Kendrick Lamar

  Song, Time, Rapper

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• Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.

  Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

  Music, Art, Essence

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• I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.

  Julian Bream

  Music, Guitar, Practice

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• My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
  I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

  Olivier Messiaen

  Life, Music, God

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• I wear black on the outside
  'Cause black is how I feel on the inside.

  Steven Morrissey

  Clothes, Soul, Feelings

  "Song: 'Unloveable'". 1986.

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• I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.

  Noel Gallagher

  Voice, People, Flip

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• If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars bar.

  Gary Moore

  Guitar, Hands, Choices

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• Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Music, Sunset, Bullshit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a man who believes that right is right and wrong is wrong. Treat me right, and I will give you my all. Treat me wrong, and I will give you nothing. They don't like me for that, but that's the way I am.

  Johnny Paycheck

  Inspirational, Believe, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

  Don McLean

  Funny, Music, Song

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• There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

  Guy Clark

  Motivational, Country, Song

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• You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world' and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world.

  Chick Webb

  Inspirational, Change, Men

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• Stop running to those who ignore you and start running to those who adore you.

  Joseph Simmons

  Inspirational, Running, Self Esteem

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• Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet

  Michael W. Smith

  Time, Powerful, Quiet Moments

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• Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.

  Peter Murphy

  Funny, Romantic, Sex

  Peter Murphy (2015). “Lagan Love”, p.81, Fiction Studio Books

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• Live with your memories and keep them as memories and that’s great. Forget the bad times just remember the good ones and you know and hope tomorrow is a good day

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  Inspirational, Hope, Memories

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• As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which to encourage lives to be renewed and awakened to God.

  Reuben Morgan

  Music, Encouraging, God

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• The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.

  Willie Dixon

  Music, Mean, Roots

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• The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.

  Babatunde Olatunji

  Inspirational, Change, Music

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• It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!

  Jeff Lynne

  Dream, Song, Writing

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• The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals

  Chrissie Hynde

  Lying, Food, Health

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• Tim Price is one of the real ones !
  A good friend and a great player !

  Phil Woods

  Real, Good Friend, Player

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• Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  Inspirational, Music, Real

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• Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive...

  Ustad Bismillah Khan

  Music, World, Ends

  "Great Muslims of undivided India" by Nikhat Ekbal, Gyan Publishing House, (p. 45), 2009.

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