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Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money. ↗

— Glenn Miller

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I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

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It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

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By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments. ↗

— Robert Moog

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I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments. ↗

— Robert Moog

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Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. ↗

— François Truffaut

#books-reading #film #life #music #art

Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect. ↗

— Richard Morris

#catholic #even #get #his #least

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

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