Barry Mann
Songwriter
"No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you."
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Walter Russell
Artist, Author, Philosopher
"Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you."
Sun Ra
Musician
"The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible."
Brent Smith
Musician
"Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy."
Sun Ra
Musician
"The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves."
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"Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good."
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"Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping."
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"A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime."
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"The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense."
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"'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music."
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"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."
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"I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was."
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"Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does."
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"You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good."
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"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time."
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"I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on."
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"I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics."
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"Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations."
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"When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance."
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"[Bach is the] reason I became a musician"
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"If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?"
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"I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did."
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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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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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"Oh, I'm a martyr to music."
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