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"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."

"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."

Billy Joel, American Musician

Musicians, Quiet, Voice, Want

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

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

Karlheinz Stockhausen, German Composer

Musicians, Sound, Trying

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

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

Ed O'Brien, English Musician

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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."

"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."

Jimmy Page, British Musician

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

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

Duke Ellington, American Musician

Musicians, Play

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"Our parents were musicians."

"Our parents were musicians."

Caroline Corr, Irish Musician

Musicians, Parents

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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."

"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."

Ken Hensley, English Musician

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

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

Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian Composer

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"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."

"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."

Adam Rich, American Actor

Musicians, Respect

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

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

Les Baxter, American Musician

Musicians, Sound

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"Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments."

"Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments."

Benny Goodman, American Musician

Musicians, Today, Want

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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."

"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

Musicians, Rules, Style

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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."

"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."

Luther Allison, American 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."

"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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"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."

"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."

Neil Diamond, American Musician

Musicians, Song, Training

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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."

"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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"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."

"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."

Cassandra Wilson, American Musician

Musicians, Song

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

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

Oscar Peterson, Canadian Musician

Musicians, Night

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"I feel really different from other musicians."

"I feel really different from other musicians."

Mary Timony, American Musician

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"We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour."

"We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour."

Jay Kay, English Musician

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

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

Joseph Jarman, American 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."

"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."

Greg Ginn, American Musician

Musicians, Public

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"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."

"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."

Compay Segundo, Cuban Musician

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"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you."

"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you."

Stan Getz, American Musician

Musicians, Play

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

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

Brownie McGhee, American Musician

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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."

"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

Musicians, Now, Years

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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."

"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."

Krist Novoselic, American Musician

Musicians, Right

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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."

"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."

David James Elliott, Canadian Actor

Musicians, School

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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."

"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."

Steve Lacy, American Musician

Musicians, Public

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"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."

"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."

Herbie Mann, American Musician

Musicians, Play, Want, Will

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

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

Lionel Hampton, American Musician

"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."

"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."

Donal Henahan, American Critic

Musicians, Spontaneity

"There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary."

"There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary."

Trevor Dunn, American Musician

Musicians, Reason

"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."

"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."

John Zorn, American Composer

"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."

"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

Musicians, Song, Years

"You know, musicians aren't very stable, in case you hadn't noticed."

"You know, musicians aren't very stable, in case you hadn't noticed."

Josh Silver, American Musician

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

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

Marc Bolan, British Musician

"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."

"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."

Wynton Marsalis, American Musician

"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."

"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."

John Zorn, American Composer

Musicians, Now, Songs

"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."

"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."

Eberhard Weber, German Musician

Musicians, Play, Pretty

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

"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

Musicians, Will

"The Doors were never that good as musicians."

"The Doors were never that good as musicians."

Ray Manzarek, American Musician

"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."

"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."

Les Baxter, American Musician

Musicians, Want

"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."

"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."

Glenn Tipton, English Musician

"You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way."

"You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way."

Beth Orton, English Musician

Musicians, Relationships

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

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

John Sebastian, American Musician

Musicians, Words

"When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing."

"When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing."

Roy Ayers, English Musician

Musicians, Talk

"Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues."

"Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues."

James Iha, American Musician

Musicians, Talking

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

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

Neville Marriner, English Musician

Musicians, Romantic

"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."

"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."

Sonny Rollins, American Musician

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