Quotes with musician

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  • Robert Schumann If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
    Robert Schumann
    German composer (1810 - 1856)
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  • Bill Wyman If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
    Bill Wyman
    English musician, record producer and songwriter (1936 - )
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  • Billy Joel It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Bryce Courtenay My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Bobby Vinton Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Alfred Einstein Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.
    Alfred Einstein
    German-American musicologist (1880 - 1952)
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  • Billy Corgan 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.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Bill Wyman 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.
    Bill Wyman
    English musician, record producer and songwriter (1936 - )
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  • Betty Carter This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.
    Betty Carter
    American jazz singer (1929 - 1998)
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  • Billy Joel Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Anne Dudley 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.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Aaron Copland When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the non-musician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Billy Joel 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.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Billy Joel When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Freddie Mercury When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
    Freddie Mercury
    British singer, songwriter and record producer (1946 - 1991)
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  • Brendon Urie You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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