"I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess."
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"I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice."
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"I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?"
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"I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier."
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"It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R."
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"But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know."
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"More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context."
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"I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks."
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"Music is essentially useless, as is life."
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"We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there."
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"I got really excited about it. But then we went into the studio and tried to record some with different musicians, and it didn't sound good. It didn't work. So we put together the album [Unchained] with just a guitar and myself."
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"I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer."
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"I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players."
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"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
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"Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs."
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"Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man."
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"Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians."
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"The bandleader is a musician trying to sell a mass commodity; and in order to do so successfully he must accommodate himself to mass standards. Unless he can do this comfortably, sooner or later he is sunk."
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"Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago."
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"Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there."
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