"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."

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"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."

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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."

Roy Ayers, English Musician

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

Luther Allison, American Musician

Musicians,

"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."

Gunther Schuller, American Composer

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"Our parents were musicians."

Caroline Corr, Irish Musician

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"I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing."

Billy Sheehan, American Musician

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

Duke Ellington, American Musician

Musicians, Play

"Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like."

John Zorn, American Composer

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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."

Karlheinz Stockhausen, German Composer

Musicians, Sound, Trying

"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."

Wynton Marsalis, American Musician

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"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."

Cassandra Wilson, American Musician

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"The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying."

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"It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier."

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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."

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

"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."

"Our parents were musicians."

"I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing."

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

"Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like."

"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."

"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."

"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."

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"I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people."

"I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part."

"Songs are life in 80 words or less."

"I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success."

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