Quotes with musician

  • There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.
  • We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.
  • When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
  • The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
  • Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
  • I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
  • I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.
  • I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
  • If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
  • I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't you won t.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    German musician and composer
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  • Abraham H. Maslow A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Billy Joel A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Billy Ocean And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.
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  • Beth Ditto Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bono As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bjork Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Ben Folds But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bun E. Carlos Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's really very simple. You're the artist. It's your picture that's going on the CD cover, nobody else's. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You'll kick yourself later if you don't.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.
    The Great Divorce (1944)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Beck Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert From the R&B side, I've always been a huge Brian McKnight fan. He's just as talented as it gets vocally, and as a musician. I think it'd be real cool to do something with him.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Adele I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Napoleon I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Buzz Osborne I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Buddy Rich If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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