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“The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.”

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Author:Horace

“Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'”

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Author:Herbie Hancock

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.”

“When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.”

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Author:Adam Levine

“I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.”

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Author:Brett Dennen

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

Source: William Shakespeare

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

“It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”

“As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.”

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Author:Van Morrison

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

Source: Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

“Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”

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

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Author:Charlie Parker

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

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.”

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)”

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”

Source: Miscellany

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)