Musician Quotes

Musician Quote of the day

No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

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.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living

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

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

I think we’re at the stage where we’re not musicians but not idols either. In a way, we also feel bad for being called idols

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.

Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

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

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

It doesn't matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to give back.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

Love isn't love until you give it away.

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, 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.

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

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

Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.