Top Musician Quotes Collection - Page 4

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Image of Miles Davis
I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.
- Miles Davis
Collection: Musician
Image of Miles Davis
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
- Miles Davis
Collection: Musician
Image of Lana Del Rey
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.
- Lana Del Rey
Collection: Musician
Image of Duke Ellington
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
- Duke Ellington
Collection: Musician
Image of Emily Haines
In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.
- Emily Haines
Collection: Musician
Image of Snoop Dogg
I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording.
- Snoop Dogg
Collection: Musician
Image of Steve Earle
My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.
- Steve Earle
Collection: Musician
Image of DJ Spooky
I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.
- DJ Spooky
Collection: Musician
Image of Dave Grohl
It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.
- Dave Grohl
Collection: Musician
Image of Ian Astbury
Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.
- Ian Astbury
Collection: Musician
Image of Anthony Hopkins
I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.
- Anthony Hopkins
Collection: Musician
Image of Herbie Hancock
I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.
- Herbie Hancock
Collection: Musician
Image of George Harrison
I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar.
- George Harrison
Collection: Musician
Image of Billy Joel
I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.
- Billy Joel
Collection: Musician
Image of Rashida Jones
I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.
- Rashida Jones
Collection: Musician
Image of Mick Jagger
Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
- Mick Jagger
Collection: Musician
Image of Hazrat Inayat Khan
For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Collection: Musician
Image of Henry Adams
[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
- Henry Adams
Collection: Musician
Image of Juliette Lewis
All the musicians that I know want to act.
- Juliette Lewis
Collection: Musician
Image of Guy Maddin
When I started making films I just decided "I'm the filmmaking equivalent of a garage band and I'll just make my garage band movies." But even the same musicians from garage bands would go to my movies and you could tell what they liked from the way that they dressed and they would be the first ones to walk out.
- Guy Maddin
Collection: Musician
Image of Lenny Kravitz
One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.
- Lenny Kravitz
Collection: Musician
Image of Bruno Mars
We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.
- Bruno Mars
Collection: Musician
Image of Neal Barnard
I thought - being a musician doesn't help your medical credibility really. Although I started to rethink that when I learned that Albert Einstein was quite a violinist and in fact would perform a lot with symphonies. So if it's good enough for Albert, it's good enough for me.
- Neal Barnard
Collection: Musician
Image of Benjamin Clementine
William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.
- Benjamin Clementine
Collection: Musician
Image of Lydia Lunch
Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.
- Lydia Lunch
Collection: Musician
Image of Gustav Mahler
It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.
- Gustav Mahler
Collection: Musician
Image of David Lynch
Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that's really what gave me permission to get into it even though I'm not a musician. It's just an intuitive thing for me.
- David Lynch
Collection: Musician
Image of Wynton Marsalis
The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
- Wynton Marsalis
Collection: Musician