"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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"A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught"
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"When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre."
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"I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down."
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"I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time."
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"I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from."
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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician."
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"Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age."
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"He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz."
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"I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger."
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"Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money."
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"A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener."
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"I did everything I could to not be a musician."
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"To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important."
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"I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician."
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"All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?"
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