"Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians."
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"I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can."
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"Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness."
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"I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer."
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"Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants."
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"Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician."
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"This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator"
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"Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her."
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"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me."
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"I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it."
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"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."
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"I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information."
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"If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close."
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"I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar."
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"The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things."
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"There actually had been a tradition within English music of the '60s of people looking eastwards, maybe in quite a naïve way, but nonetheless, you had musicians like George Harrison or Bryan Jones recording the musicians of Joujouka in North Africa."
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"When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others."
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"Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz."
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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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"I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album."
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