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“I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.”

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Author:Bill Walton

“Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with painting, I'm on my own. I find it quite easy to switch heads and I enjoy both the mayhem of being on tour and the serenity of being alone in my art studio.”

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Author:Horace Panter

“For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five thousand Facebook followers. You didn't have to worry about every club, every venue you play, where the venues say well you know can you put up this video, put up that Facebook, put up... Nowadays it's really like you just can't be a musician alone.”

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Author:Joe Louis Walker

“A good song is a good song, and good musicians can play all different styles.”

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Author:John Doe

“By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at that time about what I was going to do or where I was going. I was a musician. I was going to play. I had a band. We were going to make enough money to survive on.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don't know what to tell a person that can't - if you can't tell a person what you're talkin' about when they're rushin' or droppin' the tempo, you get somebody else.”

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Author:Miles Davis

“Sometimes I would go on Sundays and play with Doc Cheatham. I was also playing in a band of teenagers led by Don Sickler called Young Sounds, and The McDonald's Big Band led by Rich De Rosa and Justin Di Cioccio. All those guys were great educators and musicians and taught me a lot! Simultaneous to all this, another one of my musical fathers came into my life, Eddie Locke.”

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Author:Jon Gordon

“I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.”

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Author:David Lynch

“You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.”

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Author:Bruno Mars

“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.”

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Author:Moby

“Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.”

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Author:Marilyn Monroe

“To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.”

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Author:Ricky Nelson

“It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.”

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Author:Gary Oldman

“Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.”

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Author:Charlie Parker

“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.”

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Author:Tom Petty

“You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.”

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Author:Lou Reed

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

“Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.”

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Book:Schumann: a self-portrait in his own words

Source: Schumann: a self-portrait in his own words

“I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“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.”

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Author:Paul Stanley

“I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.”

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Author:Ringo Starr

“I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.”

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Author:Robert Wyatt

“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.”

“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.”

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

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

“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.”

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Author:John Coltrane

“I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.”

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Author:Nick Cannon

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