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Quotes by Musician

"I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more!"
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Chris Brown
"I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more!"
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"You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other."
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John Fogerty
"You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other."
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"I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music."
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Joanna Newsom
"I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music."
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"To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier."
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Geezer Butler
"To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier."
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"I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend."
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Elvis Presley
"I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend."
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"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
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Kurt Masur
"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
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"Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones."
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Kerry King
"Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones."
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"Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about."
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Tom Scholz
"Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about."
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"But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched."
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Perry Como
"But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched."
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"A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones."
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Cher
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones."
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"The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic."
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Michael Schenker
"The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic."
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"I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard."
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Bill Dixon
"I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard."
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"It's really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other."
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Lindsey Buckingham
"It's really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other."
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"The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters."
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Colin Greenwood
"The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters."
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"Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think."
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Wanda Jackson
"Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think."
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"I don't want to die an old lady."
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Edith Piaf
"I don't want to die an old lady."
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"I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians."
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John Mellencamp
"I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians."
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"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."
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Joni Mitchell
"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."
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"They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer."
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Miroslav Vitous
"They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer."
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"I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop."
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Bon Scott
"I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop."
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"I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought."
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Janis Joplin
"I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought."
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"Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical."
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Ikue Mori
"Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical."
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"I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'"
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Buck Owens
"I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'"
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"I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people."
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George Thorogood
"I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people."
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"If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world."
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Don Dokken
"If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world."
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"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
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Oscar Peterson
"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
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"You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them."
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Etta James
"You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them."
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"Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form."
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Bob Crosby
"Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form."
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"Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating."
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Tom Glazer
"Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating."
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"I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same time, I think probably what's unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where I'll play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I don't usually know what's going to happen, I don't have a plan."
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Mike Gordon
"I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same time, I think probably what's unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where I'll play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I don't usually know what's going to happen, I don't have a plan."
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"The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road."
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Lisa Loeb
"The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road."
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"It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar."
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Joanna Newsom
"It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar."
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"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."
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Johnny Rivers
"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."
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"I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either."
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Thomas Perry
"I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either."
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"I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio."
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John Tesh
"I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio."
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"I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal."
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Jon Crosby
"I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal."
Rap,
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"I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first."
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Jermaine Dupri
"I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first."
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"The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly."
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Gloria Estefan
"The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly."
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"It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way."
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Davy Jones
"It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way."
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"Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them."
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Arto Lindsay
"Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them."
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"It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly."
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James Taylor
"It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly."
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"My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up."
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Bobby McFerrin
"My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up."
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"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."
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Pablo Casals
"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."
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"If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way."
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Sol Hurok
"If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way."
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"We are all gifted. That is our inheritance."
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Ethel Waters
"We are all gifted. That is our inheritance."
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"I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes."
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Fiona Apple
"I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes."
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"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."
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Matthew Shipp
"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."
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"It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it."
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Ken Hensley
"It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it."
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"These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next."
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Marc Almond
"These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next."
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"I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character."
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James Taylor
"I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character."
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