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“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.”

Way Soul Music Grace Morality Music Is Training Harmony Instruments Musical Ill Educated Rhythm Inward Music Soul

Author:Socrates

“Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.”

Actors Type Musical Burden

Author:Iggy Pop

“Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.”

Use Term Bob Primitive Dylan Eloquent Gershwin

Author:Al Kooper

“Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.”

Feels Trying Ends Feelings Common Emotion Tests Everyday Bridges Performing Melody Exhilarating Test Of Time Acropolis Exhilarating Feeling

Author:Bradley Joseph

“Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge.”

Able Challenges Keep Going About Success

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Musically, between me and my fans and also me and my team, who between management and record label have always just let me be me, it's fun to pave a path. It's fun to feel like you're doing things your own way. So in that regard I haven't had to worry about any bar but my own.”

Way Feels Fun My Own Worry Path Records Team Fans Havens Like You Let Me Regard Management Bars Labels Record Labels Let Me Be Me

Author:Josh Groban

“Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.”

Men Boys Skins Old Man

Author:Eric Clapton

Source: Clapton: The Autobiography

“Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.”

Knows Men Kind Country Kids Guy Listening Grew Grew Up Pops Crossings Crossing Over R Kelly

Author:Austin Mahone

“Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.”

Feels Might Song Sound Depends Listeners Cliffs

Author:Tori Amos

“Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.”

Ifs Mean Stills Sound Guitar Hooked Guitar Sound

Author:Leo Kottke

“Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.”

Thinking Years Made Two Saws Machines Instruments Relate Two Years Berlin

Author:Feist

“Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.”

Thinking Musical Invention Dry Dry Up

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.”

Common Band Members Female

Author:St. Vincent

“Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope I get to them before I get too deaf.”

Thinking Next Term Deaf

Author:Kevin Shields

“Musically, I think I change music like I change clothes! What I listen to on a day to day basis is really contingent upon my mood and what's going on in my life.”

Thinking Clothes Bases Mood Day To Day

Author:Demetria McKinney

“Musically, I want to graduate and become one of the greatest. You can't do that just spitting punchlines. I respect those people who say they love that old style, but it would be greedy of them to want me to stay that same person.”

People Want Persons Would Be Style Graduates Want Me Greedy Punchlines

Author:Chamillionaire

“Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.”

Writing Running Song Instruments Dry

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of him if you closed your eyes and listened. From a visual artist's standpoint, Jim is a man of a thousand faces, all spellbinding.”

Ifs Thinking Men Believe Two Hands Eye Faces Artist Difficult Thousand Photographer Visuals Dozen Vocal Standpoint Cords Visual Art Two Hands Visual Artist Vocal Cords

Author:Jeff Mathews

“Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.”

People Different Bigs Walks Five Influence Streets Minutes New York Type Sacred Islamic Punk Homeless Five Minutes Latino Caribbean Reggae Rockers Reggae Music Different Types Of Music

Author:Moby

“Musically, some of the acts that I've really been identifying with are: Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Earth, Wind & Fire, in general music that seems to have a lot of romance to it and a certain glamorous idealism.”

Seems Earth Romance Certain Fire Wind Idealism Glamorous Macs Identifying Fleetwood Mac

Author:St. Lucia

“Musically, the bebop route was magnificent, but businesswise, it was the dumbest thing I ever did.”

Money Magnificent Routes Bebop

Author:Woody Herman

Source: The Woodchopper's Ball: The Autobiography of Woody Herman

“Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.”

Giving Real Age Evil Sound Church Dark Middle Movement Horror Catholic Fantastic Fifth Middle Ages Catholic Church Audio

Author:Kirk Hammett

“Musically, there's probably nothing better than, after spending weeks or months of grinding on a lyric or a song, when you play a good song from beginning to end for the first time - there's a moment there where all the pain and suffering is worth it.”

Firsts Ends Play Moments Pain Suffering Song Week Months First Time Spending Worth It Pain And Suffering

Author:Five for Fighting

“Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.”

Ifs Said Character Song Emotion Involved Musician Singing Realistic Portraying Blues Music

Author:Jack White

“Musicals and horror films can be very non-verbal and very pure cinema with movement. The camera is justified in being a character. It can really move and tell a story, and literally direct you to look here or there.”

Looks Character Stories Film Moving Movement Horror Pure Direct Cameras Cinema Justified Horror Film

Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

“Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.”

Kind Degrees Nostalgia Coming Back

Author:Carmen Ejogo

“Musicals are good times. I live to do a musical, there's nothing like it, no experience like that in the movie business. You don't get to pull all those triggers at the same time doing anything else. Nothing pulls that from you. Dancing, acting and singing is like "Alright, I gotta fire on all cylinders right now" because that's what it requires. It's fun getting to exercise all those muscles.”

Fun Acting Fire Exercise Right Now Singing Dancing Musical Muscles Good Times Triggers Alright Movie Business Cylinders

Author:Queen Latifah

“Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.”

I Can Hard School Three Ability Talent Keys Exercise High School Clubs Thrown Tunes Glee Great Talent

Author:Alan Alda

“Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.”

Stage Universal Studios Corporate Expensive Universal Studios

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.”

Theater Wine Dinner

Author:George Jean Nathan

“Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.”

Done Happens Used Written New York Performances Preview

Author:Peter Stone

“Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.”

Play Lasts Waiting Audience Collaboration Collaborators

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.”

Mean Moving Imagination Audience Wall Poetic Fourth Disbelief Theatrical Suspension Suspension Of Disbelief

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.”

Enough Universe Credit Surreal

Author:Ezra Koenig

“Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.”

Kind Mean Musician Jokes Starving Really Mean

Author:Jackson Browne

“Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.”

Musician Titles

Author:Lydia Lunch

“Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained, so that over time we'd be lucky if we just broke even. Any thought otherwise was empty pride. p. 380”

Life Music Songs

Author:Charles Frazier

Source: Cold Mountain

“Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.”

Knows Littles Strong Bits Talking Issues Little Bit Musician Pretentious Hypocritical

Author:James Iha

“Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.”

World Writing Perception Musician Songwriting Perception Of The World

Author:Pattie Boyd

“Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.”

Want Political Song Term Creativity Issues Sacrifice Involved Messages Musician Environmental Guitar Activism Get Involved Populist Environmental Issues Political Activism

Author:Eyvind Kang

“Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate caste system where it's like, "I'm the musician, you're the audience. Never the two shall meet." It was a case where it was like, "Hey, you know what? I'm on your level, man."”

Knows Men Two Artist Levels Cases Audience Politician Musician Hey Castes Hey You Caste System

Author:Bradford Cox

“Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.”

Powerful Class Middle Computer Musician Profession Journalist Middle Class Canaries

Author:Jaron Lanier

“Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact.”

Facts Problem Audience Musician Affected

Author:Hamid Drake

“Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.”

Chance Minutes Musician Drastic

Author:Keith Jarrett

“Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.”

People Thinking Creative Musician Bottom Pyramids

Author:Nick Cave

“Musicians are in-season all the time.”

Musician Seasons

Author:John Legend

“Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.”

People Should Running Lasts Politician Musician

Author:Nigel Godrich

“Musicians are not so concerned with language.”

Language Musician Concerned

Author:Ry Cooder

“Musicians are our real teachers. They are opening us up politically with their lyrics and creatively with experimental, psychedelic music. They share their discoveries and journeys with us. We can’t travel far, no one I know has ever been on an aeroplane. ... whatever they experience, we experience through their songs. It’s true folk music — not played on acoustic guitar by a bearded bloke — but about true-life experiences.”

Music Learning Musician Punk Punk Rock Teachers And Learners True Teacher

Author:Viv Albertine

Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“Musicians are PHENOMENAL.”

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Author:Stephanie Lahart

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