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Billy Sheehan

"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."

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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."

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Vera Miles

"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."

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Vera Miles

"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."

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Vera Miles

"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."

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Vera Miles

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

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Vera Miles

"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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Vera Miles

"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."

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Vera Miles

"In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying."

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Vera Miles

"The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band."

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Vera Miles

"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."

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Vera Miles

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

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Billy Sheehan
"If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing."

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Billy Sheehan
"What people think of me and my playing is up to them, not me."

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Billy Sheehan
"I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass."

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Billy Sheehan
"I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music."

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Billy Sheehan
"And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part."

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Billy Sheehan
"I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music."

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Billy Sheehan
"I've been an amature inventor for a long time."

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Billy Sheehan
"Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable."

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Billy Sheehan
"We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music."

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Billy Sheehan
"I love a lot of reggae, but I've never had the opportunity to play with any reggae guys."

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