Musician Quotes

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Who told you I was a musician?

Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.

I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

Music chooses her musicians.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.

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.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

I have a problem with capitalism, in it's extreme sense. At the same time communism, I have a problem with that, because every man must feel like a lord in his own manor.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that. It's about leaving the bad vibes and going to where the good vibes are.

You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer.

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level