Quotes by Musician I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician. Anna Meredith crafts musician important When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician. Anne Akiko Meyers trios musician years You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more. Anne Archer musician practice writing People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go. Anoushka Shankar musician memories people I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas. Anthony Braxton african-american musician play The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read. Anthony Burgess musician catholic book I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal. Anthony Davis doctrine orthodoxy musician If a musician cares about what he or she is doing, and you show up and care, you can go some place. That will never change. There are a number of ways to approach this, and my favorite is the way we're doing it now - just talking. Anthony DeCurtis my-favorite musician care When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's something I'll never get used to. Anthony Gonzalez musician accepting criticism Not only am I a musician, but I'm a businessman and a family man. Anthony Hamilton family-man musician men I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor. Anthony Hopkins talent musician actors We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different. Anthony Hopkins musician different people Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning. Antoine de Saint-Exupery clay musician sleep I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it. Anton Corbijn musician important thinking The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense. Antonin Dvorak musician country people The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians. Aphex Twin musician artist people I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians. Aphex Twin musician people thinking I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A. Ariel Rechtshaid going-out musician trying The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if that can be imagined. Everyone that I knew changed totally. But they took the worst things of his playing-that harsh sound; it just didn't come off the way they did it. The way he did it was great, Their way wasn't good at all. I just would listen to 'em, say: 'That's a Bird imitator', and that would be it; I would never care to listen to them again. Art Pepper musician sound bird Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians. Arthur Schopenhauer musician ideas art «1234567891011»