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“It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.”

People Ifs Play Asks Waiting Ability Careers Easier Approach Musician Studios Drummer Playing Drums

Author:Moby

“You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.”

Ifs Way Music Musician Singers Stay Strong Stay Positive

Author:Van Morrison

“There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.”

Ifs Want Has Beens Funny Hope Felt Chance Laughing Missing Tomorrow Future Depression Musician Experience Suicide Negativity Suicidal Rock Music Suicidal Thoughts Desperate Times

Author:Dave Navarro

“I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?”

Ifs Important Goes On Musician

Author:Yoko Ono

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”

“If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.”

“I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.”

Ifs Kind Records Car Musician Sells Singers Ems Trunks

Author:Dolly Parton

“When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.”

Ifs Way Giving Trying Stills Ideas Done Play Night Money Giving Up Musician Decided Profit Bells Lots Of Money Petty Tacos Taco Bell

Author:Tom Petty

“If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.”

Ifs Knows Artist Creative Musician Jazz Symphony Jazz Musician

Author:Buddy Rich

“If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.”

Ifs Moving Next Challenges Musician Wave Hungry Keep Moving Horny

Author:Carlos Santana

“If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.”

“It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.”

Ifs Ideas Enough Political Suffering Sides Musician Vices Clever Uncomfortable Vice Versa

Author:Robert Smith

“I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Saws Stage Musician Lifetime Songwriters

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.”

Ifs Writing Play Song Musician

Author:Paul Stanley

“You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them, it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Helping Artist Universe Musician Mere Bob Truthful Dylan Being Truthful True Artists Presenter

Author:Serj Tankian

“Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.”

Ifs Energy Failing Late Musician Too Late Dentist Accountants

Author:Peter Tork

“Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.”

Ifs Problem Wanted Names Stars Changed Musician Ran

Author:Tina Turner

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?”

Ifs Musician Lawyer Delighted Clergymen Electrician

Author:George Carlin

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”

Ifs Made Music Week Musician Mental Health Species Listening To Music Inspirational Music Origin Of Species Music Life World Music Music And Life Famous Musician Live Music Poetry And Music

Book:Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution

Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution

“A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be candid, I myself, for example, have never in my life said a word to my pupils about the "meaning" of music; if there is one it does not need my explanations. On the other hand I have always made a great point of having my pupils count their eighths and sixteenths nicely. Whatever you become, teacher, scholar, or musician, have respect for the "meaning" but do not imagine that it can be taught.”

Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel

“I see that you are working this vampire angle with some success. And kudos. Lots of girls love that sensitive-undead thing. But I'd drop the whole musician angle if I were you. Vampire rock stars are played out, and besides, you can't possible be very good.”

Ifs Whole Girl Stars Rocks Musician Very Good Vampire Sensitive Angle Rock Star Undead Girl Love

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip.”

“Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.”

People Ifs Giving Doe Poor Millions Musician

Book:Works for Children and Young Adults: Biographies

Source: Works for Children and Young Adults: Biographies

“My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.”

Ifs Play Whole Problem Spiritual Goal Religious Expression Musician Music Is No Problem Very Deep Religious Life

Author:John Coltrane

“I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie - the networks just wouldn't spend the money today.”

Ifs Two Shows Happens Age Today Stars Born Week Majors Musician Starting Glad Golden Variety My Time Dancer Guests Bob Costumes Golden Age Starting Out Guest Stars

Author:Carol Burnett

“I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.”

Ifs Knows Writing Musician

Book:Homer & Langley: A Novel

Source: Homer & Langley: A Novel

“Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.”

Ifs Men Mind Heart Matter Remember Forget Son Poet Musician Target Stubborn Forget Everything Name Of The Wind

Book:The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom.”

Ifs Thinking World Said Real Would Be Wanted Lost Modern Musician Kingdoms Princess Modern World Solace Violinist Blanche

Author:Regina Doman

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