Quotes for All
Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library – he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff. Gail Zappa
You can’t make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn’t there. Eve Arnold
You can’t fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that’s got nothing to do with it. It’s how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them. Etta James
I’m such a copycat.\”I want to try and do this like the Donovan song ‘Changes’,\” or \”I want to do this bit from Van Morrison.\” I don’t know how else to illustrate something, because I’m not a super-great musician. In that way, I’m more like the producer. Eleanor Friedberger
They tell me Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. Edgar Wilson Nye
Nobody gives a crap if we’re great musicians. Frank Zappa
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. Frank Zappa
I didn’t want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit. Fiona Apple
The guys that I played with, Hollis Dixon and the Keynotes – just about all the great musicians from Muscle Shoals.We played fraternity parties and kids’ dances. They were called “lead outs” for kids in high school. We played wherever we could – in the down time when you weren’t recording, people had to make … Read more
All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano. Dolly Parton