Quotes with musicians

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  • Billy Joel Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis 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.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Bobby Vinton 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.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Al Jarreau That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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  • Branford Marsalis The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Billy Higgins The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • Bob Seger 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.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Andy Rooney 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.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Caroline Shaw There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds of music together. We do pop studio sessions, and we'll also play John Cage and more avant-garde work. We're developing a language of music that comes with a lot of different styles, different kinds of work.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Benny Goodman Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Bootsy Collins 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.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Ben Lovett We're incredibly excited to be launching Communion in America, where not only are there literally thousands of excellent musicians that we want to promote, but it's also a country full of passionate music fans that we want to feel part of the Communion experience. It's a massive deal for us to expand, and we cannot wait to get cracking.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Beck What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Cass McCombs When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies.
    Cass McCombs
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Billy Joel Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Beth Orton You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.
    Beth Orton
    English singer-songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bruno Mars You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Carlos Santana If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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