Best 1187 quotes in «musician quotes» category

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

Like most musicians, Im good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what weve done in the past.

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

Like the ability of all the musicians to end the song at the right time. Or when it's time for a chord change, but nobody knows what the chord should be, and you all, you know, it all just changes, magically, at the same time. It's when you pick up your phone to call someone and that person is calling you.

Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist

[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.

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

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.

Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes.

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 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.

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.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

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 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, 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.

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

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

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' 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.

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.

Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

Music proposes. Sound disposes.

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.

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.