Musician Quotes
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.
My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.
The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.
Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.
The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity.
I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks.
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.
As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.
She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world.
I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'
Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.
Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.
No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.
Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me
I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.
In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.
In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.
Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.
I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.