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Musicians Quotes
"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."
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"I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have."
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"When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all."
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"All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds."
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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."
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"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."
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"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."
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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians."
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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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"It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg."
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"There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary."
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"It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest."
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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
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"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."
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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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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."
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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."
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"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."
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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."
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"We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording."
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"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."
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"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."
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"In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying."
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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."
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"You know, musicians aren't very stable, in case you hadn't noticed."
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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."
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