- Nov 07, 2020
Musicians Quotes
Most Famous Musicians Quotes of All Time!
Musicians often describe their craft as more than a job, a soulful calling shared among bandmates who dedicate their entire lives to the sound they love. This collection captures that spirit, alongside reflections on how touring abroad can be far tougher than it looks, themes you'll find echoed throughout our Always quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of musicians from non-filmi backgrounds and from independent bands are making it to mainstream cinema. Even the music directors are experimenting with different genres.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of relatives that were dancers and musicians and artists. They basically came out of the womb doing it.
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When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.
Artists have long been called the conscience of society, and no group embodies that role quite like musicians who live for their craft. Discover more on stage life and rhythm in our Great, Jazz, and Like quotes collections.