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Musicians Quotes
"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."
"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."
"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."
"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."
"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."
"There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary."
"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."
"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
"You know, musicians aren't very stable, in case you hadn't noticed."
"Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians."
"All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds."
"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."
"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."
"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
"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."
"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."
"In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying."
"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
"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."
"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
"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."
"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."
"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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