Top Musician Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Musician quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Virgil Thomson
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.
- Virgil Thomson
Collection: Musician
Image of Buddy Rich
A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught
- Buddy Rich
Collection: Musician
Image of Steve Vai
Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.
- Steve Vai
Collection: Musician
Image of Eddie Vedder
Worship the music, not the musicians.
- Eddie Vedder
Collection: Musician
Image of Pat Metheny
What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity
- Pat Metheny
Collection: Musician
Image of John Zorn
Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like
- John Zorn
Collection: Musician
Image of Sun Ra
The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.
- Sun Ra
Collection: Musician
Image of Itzhak Perlman
You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.
- Itzhak Perlman
Collection: Musician
Image of Nate Ruess
If I wasn't a musician I'd probably be like a meth addict.
- Nate Ruess
Collection: Musician
Image of Brian Cox
An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.
- Brian Cox
Collection: Musician
Image of Gioachino Rossini
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.
- Gioachino Rossini
Collection: Musician
Image of Allison Pearson
The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.
- Allison Pearson
Collection: Musician
Image of Rosanne Cash
More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.
- Rosanne Cash
Collection: Musician
Image of Charlie Byrd
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs
- Charlie Byrd
Collection: Musician
Image of Dave Brubeck
Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.
- Dave Brubeck
Collection: Musician
Image of Lennie Tristano
The jazz musician's function is to feel.
- Lennie Tristano
Collection: Musician
Image of Joshua Redman
Some of the freshest, most compelling, and most soulful music I have heard recently. Bob Reynolds is an amazing musician, with something very exciting and original to say.
- Joshua Redman
Collection: Musician
Image of Glenn Gould
[Bach is the] reason I became a musician
- Glenn Gould
Collection: Musician
Image of David Berg
Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!
- David Berg
Collection: Musician
Image of Nick Lowe
A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.
- Nick Lowe
Collection: Musician
Image of Matt Cameron
I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.
- Matt Cameron
Collection: Musician
Image of Marlo Morgan
A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.
- Marlo Morgan
Collection: Musician
Image of Frederick Delius
You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.
- Frederick Delius
Collection: Musician
Image of Oscar Peterson
I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.
- Oscar Peterson
Collection: Musician
Image of Oscar Peterson
He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.
- Oscar Peterson
Collection: Musician
Image of Bobby McFerrin
To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.
- Bobby McFerrin
Collection: Musician
Image of Victor Wooten
It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.
- Victor Wooten
Collection: Musician
Image of Wayne Shorter
If all you have is music, then you don't have music
- Wayne Shorter
Collection: Musician
Image of Eva Marie Saint
Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?
- Eva Marie Saint
Collection: Musician
Image of Frances Bean Cobain
The death of young musicians isn’t something to romanticize.
- Frances Bean Cobain
Collection: Musician
Image of Margaret Whiting
The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.
- Margaret Whiting
Collection: Musician
Image of Johnny Winter
I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.
- Johnny Winter
Collection: Musician
Image of Bing Crosby
[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.
- Bing Crosby
Collection: Musician
Image of Sufjan Stevens
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime.
- Sufjan Stevens
Collection: Musician
Image of Tracie Bennett
I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.
- Tracie Bennett
Collection: Musician
Image of William Eggleston
I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.
- William Eggleston
Collection: Musician
Image of Kasi Lemmons
If I was not a film-maker I'd probably be a musician. I like Kanye West, Jay-Z, R&B, classical, jazz and all kinds of music, but I'd say soulful World Music is my favorite.
- Kasi Lemmons
Collection: Musician
Image of Nat Hentoff
Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.
- Nat Hentoff
Collection: Musician
Image of Joshua Mohr
I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.
- Joshua Mohr
Collection: Musician
Image of Kim Deal
A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.
- Kim Deal
Collection: Musician
Image of Anthony DeCurtis
If a musician cares about what he or she is doing, and you show up and care, you can go some place. That will never change. There are a number of ways to approach this, and my favorite is the way we're doing it now - just talking.
- Anthony DeCurtis
Collection: Musician
Image of Marcus Miller
Luther Vandross was a musician who sang. So after a while he was also the number one background singer in New York, so he would sing for Bette Midler, he sang on "Fame," he sang for David Bowie, he sang for - whoever needed backgrounds, he would arrange the parts and hook your record up. He also sang on commercials. McDonald's, Budweiser.
- Marcus Miller
Collection: Musician
Image of Phil Woods
Denise Donatelli is a musician’s singer!
- Phil Woods
Collection: Musician
Image of Itay Talgam
What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?
- Itay Talgam
Collection: Musician
Image of Lisa Gerrard
There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.
- Lisa Gerrard
Collection: Musician
Image of Grant-Lee Phillips
Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.
- Grant-Lee Phillips
Collection: Musician
Image of Jane Monheit
I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.
- Jane Monheit
Collection: Musician
Image of Pierre Boulez
Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.
- Pierre Boulez
Collection: Musician
Image of Jonny Lang
But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.
- Jonny Lang
Collection: Musician