Best 1187 quotes in «musician quotes» category

A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

A good song is a good song, and good musicians can play all different styles.

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

A good musician can do more to change society than 30 average mayors.

A good song and good musicians can really move mountains.

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.

A lot of musicians have said things to me like, "Music saved my life". And "I'm standing on the shoulders of dozens of people that you've never heard of that were like angels for me that came out of the woodwork." And that's really the case for me. I had so many people that did those kinds of things for me.

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

A lot of people are really quick to say, "That song sounds like this." Or you - "He's tryin' to sound like this." And I'm always like, "You're damn right I am. That's how - that's why we're all here." You know, we all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren't satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they cheered.

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

A lot of things inspire me. Music, for one; in addition to acting, I'm also a musician.

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.

A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it.

A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will interpret a composer's work, we interpret the work of a playwright. We are servants of the theatre and I've always believed that. We must serve what has been written, that's what we're there for.

A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.

A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. You know it when you hear it.

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.

A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.