Mick Taylor Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the english musician Mick Taylor on topics like music, group, songs

  • The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

    — Mick Taylor on aspirations
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  • If it wasn't for Mick, the group would've fallen apart a long time ago.

    — Mick Taylor on fallen
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  • I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

    — Mick Taylor on advise
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  • The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.

    — Mick Taylor on comeback
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  • I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.

    — Mick Taylor on ear
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  • These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

    — Mick Taylor on days
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  • I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.

    — Mick Taylor on beginning
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  • I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California.

    It hasn't always gone that well.

    — Mick Taylor on band
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  • I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

    — Mick Taylor on clapton
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  • I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

    — Mick Taylor on books
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  • It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released.

    — Mick Taylor on days
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  • I've written lots of songs on the piano.

    My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

    — Mick Taylor on instrument
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  • About Mick Taylor

    Name Mick Taylor
    Quotes 30 quotations
    Nationality English
    Profession Musician
    Birthday October 16
    Top topics music, group, songs, play, playing
  • The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.

    — Mick Taylor on american
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  • It's sometimes impossible to fit in all the music we want to fit in, in an hour and 45 minute show.

    — Mick Taylor on fit
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  • The Stones are a different kind of group.

    I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.

    — Mick Taylor on ability
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  • I certainly want to get back to the U.

    S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.

    — Mick Taylor on big
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  • If you've been playing for a few years, especially in a group context, you'll see if you have the ability or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to and you've got to love, no matter what happens.

    — Mick Taylor on ability
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  • Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was.

    I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.

    — Mick Taylor on blues
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  • I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

    — Mick Taylor on beatles
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  • What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.

    — Mick Taylor on band
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  • I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.

    — Mick Taylor on chance
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  • Altamont... I remember all of that. That was an awful day.

    — Mick Taylor on awful
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  • The Blues scene now is international.

    In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.

    — Mick Taylor on america
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  • Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.

    — Mick Taylor on african
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  • It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce.

    — Mick Taylor on bit
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  • I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.

    — Mick Taylor on changing
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  • I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular.

    — Mick Taylor on album
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  • It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

    — Mick Taylor on band
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  • I've never stopped learning.

    — Mick Taylor on learning
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  • I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented.

    — Mick Taylor on keith
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