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David James Elliott

"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."

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Donna Grant

"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."

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Donna Grant

"I feel really different from other musicians."

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Donna Grant

"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."

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Donna Grant

"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."

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Donna Grant

"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."

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Donna Grant

"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."

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Donna Grant

"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."

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Donna Grant

"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."

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Donna Grant

"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."

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Donna Grant

"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."

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David James Elliott
"Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something."

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David James Elliott
"I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon."

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David James Elliott
"I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere."

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David James Elliott
"I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits."

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David James Elliott
"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."

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