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• I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they’re not as good at music anymore.

  Raphael Saadiq

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• I’m very unstable; there’s no stability in a musician’s life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don’t know where your money’s coming from.

  James Taylor

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• Well I’m a third-generation musician. My Grandfather’s a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I’m a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician ’cause I was born into the family.

  Sam Rivers

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• You’re a musician: You play. That’s what you do.

  Lou Reed

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• As a musician, I’ve accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

  Rickie Lee Jones

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• I don’t have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

  Elton John

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• I got by as a musician since day one. I don’t live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

  Chris Isaak

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• My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist – a painter, a decorative painter.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

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• A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

  Big Jim Sullivan

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• I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren’t where their strengths lie.

  Will Oldham

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• I’ve been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

  Frankie Avalon

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• I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn’t especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

  Eric Avery

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• I’ve sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run – I had done Jane’s and I wasn’t particularly interested in music anymore.

  Eric Avery

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• You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

  Billy Sherwood

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• When I’m dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

  Freddie Mercury

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• I haven’t written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you’re likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

  George Shearing

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• David Bowie’s my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I’m really into rap a lot right now.

  Ethan Suplee

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• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  Ed O'Brien

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• When you’re a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

  Trey Anastasio

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• Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

  Gary Burton

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