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    Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.

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    Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

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    A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.

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    A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

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    Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

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    As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

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    As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

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    A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

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    As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable and it's easy to find your voice and your sound, but I always wanted to be better.

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    As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

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    As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

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    As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.

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    As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they're about.

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    As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?

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    As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

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    As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

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    As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

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    As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

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    As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

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    As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

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    A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

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    A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

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    As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.

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    At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

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    Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.

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    At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

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    A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

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    Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse.

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    A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

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    A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

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    Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

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    Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

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    Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.

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    Back then, I was really into composing the entire solo, beginning to end. I wanted to have it at least 80 to 90 percent complete before going into the studio. I didn't improvise in the studio. I was young, and I didn't really have the development in my playing or the ability to show up with nothing and then put down 500 ideas. I can do that now because I'm so much more of a musician now.

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    Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

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    Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

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    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.

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    Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole new level.

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    Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else or something new or the same ol', same ol' in classical music. I'm always in dialogue with other musicians at least orally, if I can't be with them and a lot of dead musicians as well. I've learned a lot from dead people on recordings.

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    Being able to travel the world is pretty cool. There are places that I've always wanted to go to but being able to go there as somebody who's a musician and is recognised as one is cool.

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    Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

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    Being an American musician means being adventurous.

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    Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

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    Being a musician makes you very - musicians in general tend to be quite sensitive, I think, to the environment around them, which helps when you are trying to interact with others on screen, to be aware, to be sensitive, and to try to understand what's going on in the scene.

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    Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.

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    Being a musician is a noble profession.

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    Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy.

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    Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

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    Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

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    Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.