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If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

— Bill Wyman

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.

— Prince

I always communicate musically. I want my band not only to learn the form and feel of the song by ear, like I do, but also have the freedom to contribute.

— Joey Alexander

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

— Marilyn Manson

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

— Paul Stanley

I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.

— Leo Kottke

Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.

— Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

I love bands that can collaborate, and I feel like the Rolling Stones wouldn't be nearly as great as they are if it wasn't for them having a real group.

— Britt Daniel

✗Opposing Perspectives

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

— Kate Bush

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

— Steve Sabol