Musician Quotes

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.

There is nothing Holy about hatred.

I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

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

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who is willing to write or sing or play on a Lita song.

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

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.

I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.

It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

Some of the freshest, most compelling, and most soulful music I have heard recently. Bob Reynolds is an amazing musician, with something very exciting and original to say.

Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.

I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.

Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful thing.

I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

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

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.

I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz players] stay in the clubs. Jazz must be accessible to everyone.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.

If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.