Musician Quotes

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.

I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.

Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.

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

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.

A lot of things inspire me. Music, for one; in addition to acting, I'm also a musician.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot

I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.

I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.

We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

The only advice we gave Richie Faulkner was we wanted Richie to be his own guy. You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.

I am first and foremost a musician, although those of us who live elsewhere still dream about the inspirational qualities of Australia and its ravishing transcendental beauty.

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

I don't know anyone on my mom's or dad's side that was a musician.

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

I am more than what they say I am.

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!

This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.” “Michael Jackson lived here?” “No, dummy,” Carter said. “Elvis Presley.

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can't do it without the musicians who can play it.