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

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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

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Marc Bolan, British Musician

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

Les Baxter, American Musician

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"The Doors were never that good as musicians."

Ray Manzarek, American Musician

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Caroline Corr, Irish Musician

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"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."

Cecilia Bartoli, Italian 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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"The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification."

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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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"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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"My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never."

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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."

"All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds."

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

"The Doors were never that good as musicians."

"Our parents were musicians."

"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."

"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."

"The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification."

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

"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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"By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."

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