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[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.

Luther Vandross was a musician who sang. So after a while he was also the number one background singer in New York, so he would sing for Bette Midler, he sang on "Fame," he sang for David Bowie, he sang for - whoever needed backgrounds, he would arrange the parts and hook your record up. He also sang on commercials. McDonald's, Budweiser.

Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.

Maybe the idea of being a rockstar or being the one who's recording or playing, sort of doesn't really matter as much anymore, when you're surrounded by great musicians who bring their spirit, their own talent.

Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship.

Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that.

Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes.

Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

Most musicians I know don't just play music on Saturday night. They play music every day. They are always fiddling around, letting the notes lead them from one place to another. Taking still photographs is like that. It is a generative process. It pulls you along.

Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground.

Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.

Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.

Most of the time when musicians get together, there's always that variance - always someone's a little ahead of the beat, someone's a little behind, you just hope it meshes.

Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds.

Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.

Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren't actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them.

Musicians are not so concerned with language.

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.

Music sets up ladders, it makes us invisible, it sets us apart, it lets us escape; but from the visible there is no escape.

Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

My approach to music is very deep. I do not compromise with anybody or anything else in the world. I do not care. I want to really go beyond this materialistic world...not for the sake of enjoyment, entertainment, no. A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards Space.

My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.

Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.

Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact.

Musicians are the architects of heaven.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.