#musician

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young. ↗

— Pat Metheny

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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.' ↗

— Jimmy Page

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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. ↗

— Jimmy Page

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Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#being #life #more #much #musician

Well, my musicians are my friends. ↗

— Prince

#musicians #well

The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it! ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#all things #because #big #companies #company

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't. ↗

— Tom Waits

#musician #musician

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

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What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

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