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You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other. -- John Fogerty
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me. -- Rosanna Arquette
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians. -- Michael Nyman
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. -- John Philip Sousa
I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music. -- Eric Avery
While I am not a musician, I love music. I have over 15,000 songs on my iPod. Everything from hard core rap to the soundtrack from the original 'Cinderella.' -- Lee Daniels
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community. -- Branford Marsalis
It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it? -- James Vincent McMorrow
I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood. -- Brendan Fraser
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. -- Sondre Lerche
When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad. -- Trevor Horn
There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music. -- Miroslav Vitous
I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. -- Moby
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. -- John Drinkwater
Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again. -- Henry Rollins
I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it. -- James Taylor
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. -- Eric Clapton
I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more. -- Ji-Hae Park
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper. -- Mary Lou Williams
I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being. -- Herbie Hancock
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me -- Rosanna Arquette
Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground. -- Jerry Garcia

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