Musician Quotes

Music is a safe kind of high

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.

When all else fails, there is music. When that fails you, there is beer.

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.

Sometimes your music sounds like there’s too much inside you. Maybe even you couldn’t get it all out. Maybe that’s why you died. Like you exploded from the inside.

My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you?

Even though we've devoted our lives to music, we both know that the most important things happen without a soundtrack.

You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows.

When I discovered music — when I discovered the craft of shaping a song — my being fell into place.

MUSIC is, can, and will.

If life throws you a few bad notes, don't let them interrupt your song.

I took a road that wasn't the road, but it was something I chose and that's fine.

All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies.

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?

There's always another side to the story but nothing compares to the glory of our own short sighted, one sided glorious view

our love likestepping on to a planesitting down in a carwalking on unknown land will either take us to where we belongor throw us into darkness

You can reach maximum performance by engaging in physical activities.

I have inflammation of the imagination.

Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience?Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that his audience

I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

Enlightenment is tuning our consciousness to music of the universe.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts--such is the duty of the artist.

And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I'll be glad I spent it with you.

The sound of music, makes me dance.

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.

I don't have what it takes to inspire someone to become a "worldly" musician or rapper! I can't use the power God gave me yesterday to work against the Kingdom God set up many years ago!

If the music is amazing, you can get away with anything.

Sometimes life gets weird. Hang in there, it gets better.

... Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with ... Mr. G might not seem evil, but I fear him more than any other human being.

Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go..

Everything I didn’t know I was looking for…it’s there whenever I’m with you. I don’t know what it is that you think I deserve, but I don’t want anything other than what’s right here, right now.

Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.

You are lucky to feel sadness.

No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.

Miss, I'd gladly pay you to remove your clothes.

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

For so long music has been my heart, but now it's you...you're my heart.

I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.

There were no sparks, just a gasoline fire burning through the dark

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]

Nobody needs saving, just a little bit of empathy

Music Doesn’t Need Interpreters and Translators

They've got organizations for people like me with stupid preoccupations.

These spider webs are my home now

The musician and the listener.If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.

We're all weird.

Write the masterpiece that has not been written.Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung.Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted.Create the masterpiece that has not been created.