Quotes with musicians

  • We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.
  • The studio is really fun because I don't make it into the studio unless I've got something I really like. I love working with different musicians in the studio; that's a real joy, working with someone for the first time.
  • The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
  • Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
  • My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
  • Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.
  • A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
  • The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
  • You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.
  • One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
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  • Barry Hannah Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Boz Scaggs This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
    Boz Scaggs
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944 - )
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  • Ben Jonson 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bradley Joseph A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.
    On running a label
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • Branford Marsalis A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Billy Bragg All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Billy Joel Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Billy Joel Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson Fans want to see people who can play; they respect certain values like professionalism, and they don't want to be treated like shit. They pay good money and they look forward to seeing some good music being played by decent musicians, who really put their soul into it.
    Tobler, John (1992)
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Boz Scaggs From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.
    Boz Scaggs
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944 - )
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  • Billy Joel Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Havelock Ellis I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Bryan Adams I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Billy Joel Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Benny Green Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Billy Corgan Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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