Musicians Quotes

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.

There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

Yes, but the great thing about all the people - and I don't think there is any exception - who I've worked with is they've all been very, very talented musicians.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

Our parents were musicians.

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.

We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.

There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

I always loved the look of musicians. I've always admired them because they have a look - when I was growing up, it seemed that the ones I liked didn't need to have a stylist.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.

Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

All the people I hung out with were musicians.

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

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.

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.