Best 1187 quotes in «musician quotes» category

Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

Sonically, musicians always go above and beyond in our efforts to disrupt radio. It's always about being different. Our radio is never conventional anyway.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

Steve Lawson is a brilliant musician. I've known about him and listened to him for many years. He may not be one of the most famous bassists but he is definitely one of the most talented.

Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

That was a very natural process because as I was creating the animatic I added music clips as reference of the kind of music I wanted in the film. These were from musicians like Naná Vasconcelos and Barbatuques, the body percussion group.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

The bandleader is a musician trying to sell a mass commodity; and in order to do so successfully he must accommodate himself to mass standards. Unless he can do this comfortably, sooner or later he is sunk.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.

The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

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

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

The biggest reward from that record was the enthusiasm everyone had to sing on it. The Grammy nominations and the chart positions are great, but ultimately the way you interact with other musicians is the most important thing to me.

The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.

The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that I didn't work hard, but it wasn't like, "I'm going to be a musician.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much more difficult if you're trying to take something you've overdubbed alone on stage. But again, there are some benefits.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read.

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.

The jazz musician's function is to feel.

The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

The marvels of God are not brought forth from one's self. Rather, it is more like a chord, a sound that is played. The tone does not come out of the chord itself, but rather, through the touch of the musician. I am, of course, the lyre and harp of God's kindness.

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.

The main thing is to play your heart out and whatever helps you to do that is the right way.

The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.