“People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.” PeopleNeedsUsePastArtistNamesPerspectiveMusicianRelatedGreat MusicGreat Musician Author:Sondre Lerche
“There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.” YearsPastSongRocksProduceMaterialsMusicianAll TimeExcellentSongwritersUnimportantRock MusicManureRock Musicians Author:Noel Gallagher
“In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.” PeopleStoriesPastPurposeVisionMusicianHistorianOur PastTrue StoryTrue PurposeVisions Of The Future Book:African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston Source: African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston
“I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.” ThinkingDoePastCertainMusicianMy Past Author:John Sebastian
“Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse. Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.” SometimesMomentsPastWhiteMusicWindMusicianHorseInstrumentsMusicalMoodPhrasesRidingSolemnArrivalsWhite HorseSonatasNew ArrivalsWind Instruments Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.” PastFeetMusician Author:Dizzy Gillespie
“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?” IfsLoveFirstsMayMatterMomentsLastsPastWomenRelationshipLove YouLoversFutureMusicianMen And WomenInspirational LoveLive In The MomentMoments In TimeReggaePast Present FutureLove AgainReggae MusicPast LoveInspirational RelationshipMay Not Be PerfectFuture Love Author:Bob Marley
“I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at concerts and the musicians who played on Sunday evenings on street corners. By the time I grew up in the '80s, all of this was a thing of the past. I lived vicariously through his stories and often wondered what it would have felt like to have been part of his generation.” Has BeensStoriesPastFeltGenerationsStreetsListeningGrewGrew UpMusicianMusicalCornersEveningSundayConcertsGrandfather80sOrchestraMy GrandfatherStreet CornersSunday Evening Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away.” MadePastCompanyRecordsMusicianSorryFadesOutletsRecord CompaniesFade AwayNot Sorry Author:Jake Holmes
“As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.” WorldYearsHomePastMusicianIncrediblesI've LearnedMali Author:Nick Zinner
“A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.” LooksKindPastMusicianFemaleHoningFemale Musicians Author:Weyes Blood
“And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.” ThinkingCarePastCertainSongHumourAmbitionMusicianOkayDon't CareI Don't CareTouchedCelebrationSensibilityGood HumourTimepieces Author:Robert Plant
“One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.” YearsHardPastFoundOpportunityCareersOne ThingMusicianStomachOver The PastDjsCareer Opportunities Author:Erol Alkan
“In London, the most, the biggest thing we have is culture, you know what I mean? That's what we've done for the past 50, 60 100 years, this is what we've done. My worry is that that will change but actually, that will never change because musicians will just go somewhere else.” KnowsYearsMeanDonePastCultureWorryMusicianLondonSomewhere ElseNever Change Author:Kate Tempest
“Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just walk through town, sometimes with our horns. And we'd walk by past an Irish bar. And you'd stand outside and check out the music. And Bird would go in and sit in with these traditional Irish musicians. Then we'd past a Greek restaurant and we'd hear that. And Charles "Bird" Parker would go sit in with those guys. He was just listening to everything, reacting to everything.” MenSaidSometimesPastUsedGuyWalksListeningMusicianBirdTownsBarsChecksTraditionalFranceGreekRestaurantsHanging OutStanding OutHornsBuddyJust ListenReacting Author:Jon Gordon
“Business today is all about improvisation, which is the essence of jazz. Perhaps in the past we could just follow the operating manual and do what we were told, but today the world is too complex and fast. Today it's all about real-time innovation and creativity. Individuals may get hired based on their resumes, but they'll get promoted and reach their dreams based on their ability to create. In that context, being a jazz musician was the best MBA I could have ever received.” WorldDreamTodayPastIndividualAbilityCreativityMusicianInnovationJazzJazz MusicImprovisationJazz Musician Author:Josh Linkner
“I grew up during the Communist time. When I was a student and I especially wanted to play rock, that was a problem for all rock musicians in the Soviet Union. My friends liked it, but all the Communist officials, bureaucrats, teachers, didn't like this. There was very powerful propaganda against capitalism and the Western ideology. Everything that was connected to the West - rock music, jeans, long hair, loud music - everything was not allowed. But luckily that's now in the past. I hope.” LongProblemPastPowerfulTeacherStudentsMusicianCapitalismWesternIdeologyPropagandaCommunistSovietSoviet UnionVery PowerfulRock MusicLong Hair Author:Albert Kuvezin
“I think there are basically two kinds of musicians: some are extroverted and some are introverted. I think extroverted musicians are more in the entertainer kind of camp, which is just as valid, but you're going to be more apt to make music that is of the moment - whereas if you're coming from a more introverted place, the music is going to end up being more about the past or more personal. It's not going to be about the people in the room, per se.” PeopleThinkingKindMomentsPastMusicianMusic IsIntroverted Author:Memory Tapes
“Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.” PeopleThinkingPastMusicianPrisonPrisonerLiving In The Past Author:Carlos Santana