Best 1187 quotes in «musician quotes» category

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

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.

Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that's really what gave me permission to get into it even though I'm not a musician. It's just an intuitive thing for me.

Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

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

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable and it's easy to find your voice and your sound, but I always wanted to be better.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.

As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they're about.

As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.