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“I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.”

Thinking Imagine Musician Seeking Pursue Celebrity Status

Author:Natalie Merchant

“Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.”

Ifs Want Enjoy Opinion Imagine Player Becoming Musician Capable Harder Hardest Weekend Hardest Thing Just Do It Composing

Author:John Powell

“Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed, The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Than a delight measure or a dance; For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.”

Men Way Looks Soul Light Lying Imagination Steps Imagine He Man Flower Sorrow Musician Singing Bird Fairs Dear Delight Grass Bites Singing Birds

Book:King Richard II: Third Series

Source: King Richard II: Third Series

“In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.”

Facts Artist Song Audience Imagine Musician

Author:John Dyer Baizley

“If a song is cooking in the studio, that's great, but if I can imagine doing it on stage, that's the next level to me. ... Some people love paintings, and some people love poetry, and of course I love all of that, but when a musician is so in control of her instrument, I'm in awe. That's when I start to kind of evaporate into the universe.”

People Kind Song Universe Imagine Painting Musician Cooking Awe Love Poetry

Author:Chrysta Bell

“I love acting. I can't imagine anything else that I would do. I know a lot of actors that really want to be directors and be musicians and all that stuff. I like acting and I feel like I'm good at it. It kinda makes me happy. It's actually pretty easy to me and I can't imagine doing anything else at this point because I've been doing it for so long.”

Long Easy Acting Imagine Musician Make Me Happy

Author:Edward Furlong

“Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul or spirit or consciousness. The Seven Faces of Intention: creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, abundance, and receptivity. And all seven are expressions of what I imagine that source to look like. The very fact that we exist is proof to me that the nature of that source is creative at its core. And there isn't a person reading this who does not have a gnawing sense inside that there's something they're here to do, something creative.”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“I can imagine lyrics becoming better written by smart machines rather than stupid musicians. Songwriters generally have nothing to say. They may as well be replaced by machines.”

Imagine Stupid Musician Smart Replaced

Author:Stephin Merritt

“My son is actually named after Beck, the musician. We heard Beck on the radio and thought that was a good nickname for a child. We named our son Beckett so we could call him Beck - we reverse engineered. And then after he was born and I saw the name on the birth certificate I realized Beckett was a really pretentious name, way too literary. Luckily he's grown into it. We nearly named my second son Dashiell. Can you imagine? Beckett and Dashiell. It would have been a disaster of pretentiousness.”

Children Imagine Son Birth Musician I Realized Disaster My Son Pretentious Beckett Pretentiousness

Author:Lauren Groff

“I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Looks Persons Might Fun Hours Rooms Imagine Musician Twelve Locked

Author:Leo Kottke

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”

“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

“We'll win, of course," he said. "You don't want that," said the demon. "Why not, pray?“ “Listen," said Crowley desperately, "how many musicians do you think your side have got, eh? First grade, I mean." Aziraphale looked taken aback. "Well, I should think-" he began. "Two," said Crowley. "Elgar and Liszt. That's all. We've got the rest. Beethoven, Brahms, all the Bachs, Mozart, the lot. Can you imagine eternity with Elgar?”

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch