"We're not spokespeople, we're musicians."

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

Karlheinz Stockhausen, German Composer

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"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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"I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years."

Jay Kay, English Musician

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"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."

Alexis Korner, English Musician

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"Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians."

Joseph Jarman, American Musician

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"Both of my parents were musicians."

Bryan White, American Musician

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"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."

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"We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band."

Fame

"At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right."

Time

"What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business."

Business

"But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it."

Time

"Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us."

Idea

"I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard."

Work

"I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV."

Music

"What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time."

Time

"There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else."

Example

"The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on."

Time