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  • Maybe the idea of being a rockstar or being the one who's recording or playing, sort of doesn't really matter as much anymore, when you're surrounded by great musicians who bring their spirit, their own talent.

    Ideas   Musician   Matter  
    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.

    "Tchaikovsky May Have Been Gay, Putin Reluctantly Admits" by • Alexander Abad-Santos, www.theatlantic.com. September 4, 2013.
  • Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

    Music   Time   Bills  
    Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster
  • Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.

    Sex   Moving   Race  
  • I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

  • If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

    Love   Life   Happiness  
    Guitar Player, August 01, 2004.
  • I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

  • In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

    Views   Musician   Jazz  
  • Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.

  • In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

    Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria
  • So Nemerov showed us this picture, which is of Apollo flaying Marcius. You don't think of Apollo as being the sort of person who would skin someone alive. But the story behind it was that there was this guy who was a really great musician, and all the women loved him, and people started saying he was the best musician in the world, so Apollo got jealous and he challenged this guy to a musical dual. They would each play a song and the muses would judge who was the better musician.

    Song   Jealous   Thinking  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • The guys that I played with, Hollis Dixon and the Keynotes - just about all the great musicians from Muscle Shoals.We played fraternity parties and kids' dances. They were called "lead outs" for kids in high school. We played wherever we could - in the down time when you weren't recording, people had to make money.

    Party   School   Kids  
    "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 8, 2015.
  • I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

    Play   Ideas   Giving  
    Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.
  • When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

  • Where words fail, music speaks.

    Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”
  • If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

    Music   Art   Reality  
    Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
  • When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.

    Artist   Oregon   Alcohol  
  • THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

    Musician   Band   Firsts  
  • Deftones is always my main focus. I’ve been doing it the longest and it’s definitely a priority. I think of these as projects. It’s not like I’m unfulfilled with a need to find another outlet. I look at it as making music with my friends, and I’m blessed that they’re great musicians.

  • A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

    Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.
  • Surrounding myself with people I enjoy being with made the sessions effortless. Everyone came prepared and ready to play. All were great musicians and they came to the studio to give everything they had.

    Play   People   Giving  
  • Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in the way, but only serve the agenda of the heart.

  • Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.

    Trying   Musician   Want  
  • The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.

  • I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

  • Yeah, we try to get the best musicians possible, and Justin [Robinson] is a great musician, man, a great player. You must have been surprised to see him out there, then.

    Player   Men   Trying  
    Source: aalbc.com
  • Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

    "Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker". Book by Robert George Reisner, p. 27, 1977.
  • I didn't want my records to sound like anybody else, and when I've got my guys in the studio, I have a language with those guys because we work together every day. A lot of times, you bring in outside guys, studio players, whatever, and they're great musicians. It's just that they don't necessarily play the way I want it to be played.

  • Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

  • Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

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