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“A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.”

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Author:Kim Deal

“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.”

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Author:Kinky Friedman

“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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Author:Andre Benjamin

“Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.”

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Book:Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

Source: Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

“To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.”

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Author:Bobby McFerrin

“My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.”

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Author:Kim Basinger

“'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“To be honest, I've never looked really hard for musicians. I'll just randomly meet people. I've never interviewed bandmates or anything like that. The reason I like playing with Chad and Devin is that they're just really, really good musicians and good players. There's not a lot of sloppiness going on.”

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Author:Mary Timony

“I feel like I live in my own little world, to be honest. I mean, I love my record, but I don't feel tied to it. I sort of created my own little universe in the studio, and that's why all of those musicians who made a living in the Nashville music scene loved coming over to my place so much.”

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Author:Dan Auerbach

“I'm not as religious as some people about "the album." To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that's 45 minutes. You had A-side songs and B-side songs; I always loved the first song on side B. And there's nothing wrong with that. Prog albums of the 70s adapted to that format very much. But not all musicians want to create 45 minutes of music that has to be listened to in chronological order.”

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Author:Bjork

“She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their own hearts. They all straddle the border of Faerie, and they see into both worlds. Not dependably into either, perhaps, but that uncertainty keeps them honest and at a distance.”

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Author:Emma Bull