M Quotes
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“Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.”
“Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.”
“Musicians are the architects of heaven.”
“Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.”
“Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.”
“Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.”
“Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!”
“Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.”
“Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.”
“Musicians coming together at a time of need is one of the great traditions in this country. It's like people taking charge.”
“Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.”
“Musicians do not get on stage without hearing the song singing inside of them. Poets do not write as if they are jotting down a sermon, they see everything in their subconscious before presenting it to the conscious, which they later turn to readable materials. Artist do not draw and paint without painting in dream states, trance, or see an art form that others do not see. Being creative does not calls for being any supernatural entity, but in creating with the entities inside of you.”
Source: The Infinity Sign
“Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.”
“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”
“Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.”
“Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.”
“Musicians have always had a better understanding of love than the rest of us. Over the years they have told us that love: is like a rock, is here to stay, is all you need, will find a way, will keep us together, will tear us apart, sucks.”
Source: Another Whole Nother Story
“Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.”
“Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.”
“Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.”
“Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.”
“Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow was strictly English, and he was editor of the newspaper there. He shook my hand after I got off the train and said, "Hello, Satchmo." So right away my trombone player said, "Mmm, the man thinks you have mo' mouth than Satchel Mouth." So I was stuck with it, and it turned out all right.”
“Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.”
“Musicians, like golfers, have to put their minds in the right place – trusting, confident, enjoying the pressure, being in present. And so forth. Otherwise, no amount of practice or “Time management” will make them better. The same is true in all professions: if you’re stuck in the Training Mindset, evaluating yourself, or thinking in the past or future, you will not perform up to your potential. You will waste a lot of time, be an inefficient performer, and likely assume you need to manage your time better. In reality you need to manage your thinking better.”
Source: Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More
“Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.”
“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.”
“Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.”
“Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.”
“Musicians own music because music owns them.”
“Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.”
“musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.”
Source: Patty's Friends
“Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others.”
“Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.”
“Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.”
“Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren't actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them.”
“Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.”
“Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.”
“Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.”
“Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.”
“Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.”
“Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...”
“Musick helps not the tooth-ach.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”
Source: The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works
“Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.”
“Music’s a wood you walk through.”
“Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.”
“Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.”
Source: The Songlines
“Musik hilft mir, die Welt auszublenden.”
Source: Wanderherzen
“Musik, lagu, dan tarian adalah bentuk budaya yang bertujuan memengaruhi emosi manusia, seperti kau merasa senang melihat tarian Thousand hands Bodhisattva. Bentuk budaya ini juga menyampaikan tradisi turun-temurun, menyampaikan kisah dan nilai-nilai utama seperti tarian ini menceritakan pengorbanan si putri bungsu.”
Source: Man's Defender
“Musik är min MDMA,
Kulturer är mitt kokain.
Språken är min LSD,
Människor är min himmel.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi