Top Musician Quotes Collection - Page 3

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Image of Rene Marie
To be up on stage and interacting with musicians, that was a huge epiphany for me.
- Rene Marie
Collection: Musician
Image of Aino Jawo
I really like Katy Perry and the music she does. She's an amazing musician and it's an honour to be opening for her in London.
- Aino Jawo
Collection: Musician
Image of Kurt Ralske
I am a musician who stopped working with music. Now I work with visual music, or audio-visual music.
- Kurt Ralske
Collection: Musician
Image of Carl Orr
Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
- Carl Orr
Collection: Musician
Image of Tim Hecker
I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician.
- Tim Hecker
Collection: Musician
Image of Yehudi Menuhin
To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.
- Yehudi Menuhin
Collection: Musician
Image of Wynton Marsalis
Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
- Wynton Marsalis
Collection: Musician
Image of Carol Friedman
Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that."
- Carol Friedman
Collection: Musician
Image of Lil Wayne
I can honestly say my music is always going to be greater than my business side. Because I'm naturally a musician. And I don't have to get paid, I don't even have to have businesses. Business is business. And music is life.
- Lil Wayne
Collection: Musician
Image of Henry Rollins
Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.
- Henry Rollins
Collection: Musician
Image of Jimmy Page
There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
- Jimmy Page
Collection: Musician
Image of Steve Vai
It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.
- Steve Vai
Collection: Musician
Image of Moby
There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.
- Moby
Collection: Musician
Image of Lars Ulrich
Back then, I was really into composing the entire solo, beginning to end. I wanted to have it at least 80 to 90 percent complete before going into the studio. I didn't improvise in the studio. I was young, and I didn't really have the development in my playing or the ability to show up with nothing and then put down 500 ideas. I can do that now because I'm so much more of a musician now.
- Lars Ulrich
Collection: Musician
Image of Thom Yorke
I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.
- Thom Yorke
Collection: Musician
Image of Ozzy Osbourne
I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.
- Ozzy Osbourne
Collection: Musician
Image of Paul Simon
Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!
- Paul Simon
Collection: Musician
Image of Kanye West
I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.
- Kanye West
Collection: Musician
Image of Cat Stevens
It's true that the Internet is an equalizer, and everybody can be a star now. Musicians are more touchable these days, and that's a good thing. It's certainly the way I like to live my life, and it's why I don't do concerts in big arenas - I prefer to be in touch with my audience.
- Cat Stevens
Collection: Musician
Image of Romain Rolland
Everything is music for the born musician.
- Romain Rolland
Collection: Musician
Image of Cornel West
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.
- Cornel West
Collection: Musician
Image of Moby
I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.
- Moby
Collection: Musician
Image of Neil Young
Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.
- Neil Young
Collection: Musician
Image of Kanye West
I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.
- Kanye West
Collection: Musician
Image of Patrick Rothfuss
A poet is a musician who can't sing.
- Patrick Rothfuss
Collection: Musician
Image of Joni Mitchell
I'm a painter first, and a musician second.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Musician
Image of Audrey Niffenegger
My family isn't posh; they're musicians.
- Audrey Niffenegger
Collection: Musician
Image of Henry Rollins
Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.
- Henry Rollins
Collection: Musician
Image of Iggy Pop
A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.
- Iggy Pop
Collection: Musician
Image of Trey Parker
I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else.
- Trey Parker
Collection: Musician
Image of Gene Simmons
I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.
- Gene Simmons
Collection: Musician
Image of Moby
There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going on to sell a lot of copies of the record. Especially if you look at the pop climate.
- Moby
Collection: Musician
Image of Billy Bragg
The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role in youth culture.
- Billy Bragg
Collection: Musician
Image of John Waters
I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.
- John Waters
Collection: Musician
Image of Frank Zappa
I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.
- Frank Zappa
Collection: Musician
Image of Pat Metheny
I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.
- Pat Metheny
Collection: Musician
Image of Virginia Woolf
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
- Virginia Woolf
Collection: Musician
Image of Tommy Chong
Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.
- Tommy Chong
Collection: Musician
Image of Thelonious Monk
The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.
- Thelonious Monk
Collection: Musician
Image of Jack White
It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.
- Jack White
Collection: Musician
Image of Sri Chinmoy
God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God from His music. The universal Consciousness is constantly being played by the Supreme Himself, and is constantly growing into the Supreme Music.
- Sri Chinmoy
Collection: Musician
Image of George Carlin
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
- George Carlin
Collection: Musician
Image of Robert Browning
But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
- Robert Browning
Collection: Musician
Image of Harry Connick, Jr.
I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.
- Harry Connick, Jr.
Collection: Musician
Image of Miles Davis
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.
- Miles Davis
Collection: Musician
Image of Miles Davis
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.
- Miles Davis
Collection: Musician
Image of Richard Dawkins
I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.
- Richard Dawkins
Collection: Musician
Image of Elvis Costello
I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...
- Elvis Costello
Collection: Musician