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If you want to be a musician, study your craft. study music.
-Billy Eckstine
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If You Want To Be A Musician,

Billy Eckstine
If you want to be a musician, study your craft. study music.
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I don't view myself as a musician anymore - i view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when i'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. that's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now i look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.
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Most people define themselves by what they do - 'i'm a musician.' then one day it occurred to me that i'm only a musician when i'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. i don't do that 24 hours a day. i'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - i mean, when i go to vote, i'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'
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To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. at that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable. the relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. you can never guarantee when it's going to work. you can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen.
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We learned out craft. acting is a craft and you must learn it. i see a lot of talent today in the kids but they don't know how to work. they don't know the craft of acting and you can only get that on the stage in theater. you cannot learn how to act in movies or in television.
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