Musician Quotes

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

The death of young musicians isn’t something to romanticize.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

(For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important.

I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

Musicians are in-season all the time.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don’t like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls

There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

The whole point of working and practicing your whole life is so that you're ready when that moment arrives; when the inspiration arrives, you are ready to be at the disposal of inspiration.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

Initially, when I was first starting as a musician, I was a very nationalistic figure and I used to believe in doing a lot of national songs. I would always have a national song in the albums I did.

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

I was born with music inside me

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.