Musician Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If I wasn't a musician I'd probably be like a meth addict.

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

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.

Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

"The main thing is to play your heart out and whatever helps you to do that is the right way".

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous.

Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.

Sometimes not much is just enough.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.

A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Obviously, [Wham!] made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.

I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.

Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.

All the people I hung out with were musicians.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.