Top Musician Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Ry Cooder
Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.
- Ry Cooder
Collection: Musician
Image of Ry Cooder
These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look.
- Ry Cooder
Collection: Musician
Image of Ry Cooder
Musicians are not so concerned with language.
- Ry Cooder
Collection: Musician
Image of Mary Timony
I feel really different from other musicians.
- Mary Timony
Collection: Musician
Image of Andrew Gold
It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician.
- Andrew Gold
Collection: Musician
Image of Lady Gaga
I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.
- Lady Gaga
Collection: Musician
Image of John Gay
Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.
- John Gay
Collection: Musician
Image of Michael Azerrad
I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.
- Michael Azerrad
Collection: Musician
Image of Ian Paice
To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.
- Ian Paice
Collection: Musician
Image of Conor Maynard
YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although its harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.
- Conor Maynard
Collection: Musician
Image of David Salle
If you go to a concert, you will notice, is it loud? Is the music fast? Is it predominately strings or brass? There are things we can all register, whether we are musicians or not. Painting's no different. Taking pleasure in projecting oneself into the painting is the act of looking. That's what looking is.
- David Salle
Collection: Musician
Image of Robert Fripp
The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.
- Robert Fripp
Collection: Musician
Image of Patrick Watson
Everybody always wants to meet musicians. You can go to any random bar around the world and be like, "I'm a musician," and they'll have something to say to you. It's kind of this weird passport where you can go around and as soon as you say you're a musician, you're welcome.
- Patrick Watson
Collection: Musician
Image of Buddy Guy
Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.
- Buddy Guy
Collection: Musician
Image of Buddy Guy
The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.
- Buddy Guy
Collection: Musician
Image of Laura Smith
When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering.
- Laura Smith
Collection: Musician
Image of Levon Helm
I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.
- Levon Helm
Collection: Musician
Image of Pete Burns
Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do.
- Pete Burns
Collection: Musician
Image of Daniel Cawdry
As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.
- Daniel Cawdry
Collection: Musician
Image of Anthony Davis
I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.
- Anthony Davis
Collection: Musician
Image of Ayshay
I'm not a philosopher so why should I provide anyone with the answers? I'm just a musician, I don't have any solutions. All I'm doing is questioning the status quo, with every record I've made, to a certain extend.
- Ayshay
Collection: Musician
Image of Ayshay
The vast majority of women musicians function under singular names like 'Cher' 'Madonna'. They have to get married almost immediately to preserve their honour.
- Ayshay
Collection: Musician
Image of Jacob Bannon
What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.
- Jacob Bannon
Collection: Musician
Image of Hortense Powdermaker
Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than one would expect from looking movies.
- Hortense Powdermaker
Collection: Musician
Image of Hazrat Inayat Khan
In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Collection: Musician
Image of Lola Kirke
There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor.
- Lola Kirke
Collection: Musician
Image of Bradley Joseph
A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.
- Bradley Joseph
Collection: Musician
Image of Danger Mouse
The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.
- Danger Mouse
Collection: Musician
Image of David Finckel
Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole new level.
- David Finckel
Collection: Musician
Image of Gary Hoey
An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.
- Gary Hoey
Collection: Musician
Image of Elle King
Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways. Good and bad.
- Elle King
Collection: Musician
Image of Weyes Blood
I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.
- Weyes Blood
Collection: Musician
Image of Erika M. Anderson
When I like a musician I want to see a picture or a video of them.
- Erika M. Anderson
Collection: Musician
Image of Erika M. Anderson
I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.
- Erika M. Anderson
Collection: Musician
Image of Sarah Jaffe
I had gotten to know the music scene there, and just fell in love with it. I've lived there a little over four years now. There's a charm to Denton. The musicians in Denton are all very talented, but they're also all very accessible and very community-oriented.
- Sarah Jaffe
Collection: Musician
Image of Cosimo Matassa
A lot of good musicians made me look good.
- Cosimo Matassa
Collection: Musician
Image of Lotic
My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed.
- Lotic
Collection: Musician
Image of Alasdair MacLean
One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to stuff you would never have otherwise found out about.
- Alasdair MacLean
Collection: Musician
Image of Jake Holmes
Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship.
- Jake Holmes
Collection: Musician
Image of Jake Holmes
Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.
- Jake Holmes
Collection: Musician
Image of Lindi Ortega
I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.
- Lindi Ortega
Collection: Musician
Image of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse.
- Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Collection: Musician
Image of Jonathan Rado
It's amazing to hear proficient musicians play your music. It's a once in a lifetime kind of experience.
- Jonathan Rado
Collection: Musician
Image of Brian Warren
I've been really lucky as far as the caliber of musicians I've been able to work with each time.
- Brian Warren
Collection: Musician
Image of Brian Chippendale
You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
- Brian Chippendale
Collection: Musician
Image of John McLaughlin
Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.
- John McLaughlin
Collection: Musician
Image of Seymour Stein
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.
- Seymour Stein
Collection: Musician
Image of Joe Louis Walker
Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.
- Joe Louis Walker
Collection: Musician
Image of Ben Sollee
I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.
- Ben Sollee
Collection: Musician