Musicians Quotes
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Music Quotes
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Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton
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See I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don`t believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your cds and burn `em. `cause you know the musi...
James Maynard Keenan
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Musicians don`t retire; they stop when there`s no more music in them.
Louis Armstrong
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There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.
Isaac Stern
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master
Duke Ellington
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I never wanted to churn it out. Comedians tend to work all the time. They never put it down like musicians who might make an album then take three or four years off to recharge their batteries. Comedians tend to work straight through and they get stale be...
Chris Rock
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For a while I was like, "Oh my God, anyone that would release an album as an actor is the biggest fool ever", but I happened to have sung all my life before I was an actor. Why are musicians allowed to become actors? No one ever gives them flack for that.
Zooey Deschanel
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Even though it`s become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it`s still effective and it still has to be done.
George Michael
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I wouldn`t like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do. And I really think they`re much wilder than we are. One time, four movie guys walked up to me at a party after a show. I was looking good. And they to...
Stevie Nicks
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There`s been a big change in the music field in the last 10 or 12 years. I think everything has improved - the sounds have improved, the musicians have improved, the engineers have definitely improved. I like a lot of the new groups, y`know, The Beatles a...
Elvis Presley
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I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn`t a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative e...
Jared Leto
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A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it`s just frustrating because you`re not allowed to do what you want to do
Gina Gershon
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[On recording "Secret Love" for the movie Calamity Jane (1953)]: When I first heard "Secret Love" I almost fainted, it was so beautiful. When we finally got around to doing the pre-recording, Ray Heindorf, the musical director at Warner`s, said he`d get t...
Doris Day
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Some rock musicians make a bunch of money and stick it up their noses - I stick mine in my ear
Frank Zappa
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I`ve never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I`ve always played with other musicians. It`s how I play, there`s no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, ...
Ringo Starr
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You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.
John Fogerty
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You mostly come to these things to support other musicians,
John Carr
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You have certain musicians, when you work with them, it give you a certain flavor, as I say before... So it`s all about variation.
Dennis Brown
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You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.
Sonny Rollins
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Yes, but the great thing about all the people - and I don`t think there is any exception - who I`ve worked with is they`ve all been very, very talented musicians.
Joan Armatrading
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world class and incredible musicians.
Jake Shimabukuro
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Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.
Lionel Hampton
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When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it`s natural.
Kathy Mattea
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When we were younger we were all trying to score points. But as musicians all we wanted to do was to make something that sounded great, and we became obsessive about it.
Jon King
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When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn`t there.
Paul Simon
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When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
Sammy Hagar
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When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.
Steve Lacy
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Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don`t always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.
Al Sevier
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What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.
Lesley Garrett
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What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don`t think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.
Sonny Rollins
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