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- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, 'I don't have to work right now. I can sit and make my record.'
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With El Sistema, you can create orchestras everywhere; then they can decide whether they want to become professional musicians. The aim is not only to create musicians, but to create people.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're filming, if you can't capture the relationships and interplay, that magical thing that transpires between musicians during a performance, then you're not going to have a deeply interesting film. It's vital.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
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.