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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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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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Billy Sheehan
"I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success."

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Billy Sheehan
"It is never easy for anyone to have success in music."

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Billy Sheehan
"History has repeated itself many times througout the ages."

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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 plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more."

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Billy Sheehan
"I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play."

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Billy Sheehan
"Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan."

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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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Billy Sheehan
"My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me."

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Billy Sheehan
"Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better."

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