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“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”

“But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.”

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Author:Sun Ra

“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.”

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Author:Buddy Rich

“I know a lot of people who are struggling musicians; it's a hard life, and I've risked being that. The rewards are tremendous now that I've made it, I thank God every day. But I put it all on the line for it.”

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Author:Kid Rock

“Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.”

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Author:Nile Rodgers

“I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.”

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Author:Ed Sheeran

“I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.”

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Author:Patti 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.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.”

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Author:James Taylor

“I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.”

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Author:Pete Townshend

“Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.”

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Author:Dionne Warwick

“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”

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Author:David Bowie

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

“This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.”

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Book:Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing

Source: Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing

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

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Book:Homer & Langley: A Novel

Source: Homer & Langley: A Novel

“It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time. You might know someone for several years, for instance, and trust him completely as your friend, but circumstances could change and he could become very hungry, and before you knew it you could be boiling in a soup pot, because there is no way of knowing for sure.”

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Author:Daniel Handler