Best Musicians Wisdom
854 Musicians quotes by 636 unique authors
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I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come close…
— Unknown Author
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Some musicians are not great technicians, but they give you a rich point of view.
— Nathan Milstein
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In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians,…
— James Weldon Johnson
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We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear some…
— Steve Miller
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Surrounding myself with people I enjoy being with made the sessions effortless. Everyone came prepared and ready to play. All were great musicians and they…
— Stanley Clarke
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The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that…
— Greg Ginn
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There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit of the musicians…
— Steve Albini
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Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior…
— Steve Albini
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Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of…
— Mary Lou Williams
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One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My…
— Mary Lou Williams
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Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people…
— Fanny Crosby
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When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the…
— Trevor Horn
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We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
— Oscar Peterson
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In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting…
— David Amram
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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…
— Sonny Rollins
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We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's…
— Chad Smith
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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…
— Branford Marsalis
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After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this…
— Gunther Schuller
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I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and…
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians…
— Donal Henahan
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A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.
— Patrick Dempsey
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We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.
— Khalil Gibran
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Super silver, Hawaiian haze Sativa, indica, Solomon's grave Genesis, chapter one verse twelve ways Marijuana, hashish, everybody blaze Fuels and fibers, energy saved When the…
— Aceyalone
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Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians…
— Ken Hensley
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THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians…
— Ken Hensley
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