Musician Quotes
A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. You know it when you hear it.
I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.
There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!
The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.
Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.
I'm African American, I'm a lot of other things, a musician and an artist. But that woman part holds the most pain for me. And therefore, obviously, the most lessons.
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.
The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.
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.
I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.
It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.
Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.
Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.
I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.
I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.
When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.
I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.
What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
I felt that with In A Perfect World I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.
When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.
I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.
Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.
Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.
I knew a lot of my musicians used to take coke. I never saw them. They would hide it from me, so I wasn't really aware of it. Creatively, I don't think it was that great.
Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.
Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.