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Until the song is sung and the musicians have all gone home, not even you can tell which notes made the melody. — Karen Miller

Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds. — Yuja Wang

I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me. — Tim Roth

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians. — Morton Feldman

Once when asked how I would like to be remembered, I answered, "As someone who opened doors. — Dave Brubeck

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it. — Patti Smith

If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward. — Dave Grohl

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band. — Rashida Jones

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging. — Placido Domingo

We all know the record biz don't pay. All musicians have day jobs - no matter how big they are. — Shawn Amos

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes. — Dodie Smith

My downfall emotionally is musicians and songwriters. — Marcia Strassman

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general. — Lionel Hampton

When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians. — Tina Maze

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing. — Buddy Guy

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. — Will Oldham

I think musicians should stay off television generally. — Sufjan Stevens

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all. — Steve Lacy

That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you. — Halsey

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews. — Harold C. Schonberg

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians. — Brandi Carlile

A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time. — Neneh Cherry

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

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers. — David Cassidy

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you ... — Sarah McLachlan

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me. — Rosanna Arquette

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

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians. — Wynton Marsalis

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work. — Brian Eno

Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach — Mauricio Kagel

I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn. — Jack Kerouac

The musicians one day are going to listen to me. — Joss Stone

Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people. — Stephen Malkmus

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive. — Wayne Coyne

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians. — Anton Corbijn

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy. — Andre Rieu

As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ. — M. Ward

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity. — Ravi Shankar

All rock musicians are deaf ... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. — Marc Bolan

Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art — Jean Sibelius

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. — Bonnie Raitt

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school. — David James Elliott

Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those. — Luka Sulic

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do? — Eva Marie Saint

Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him. — Zakk Wylde

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

The digital revolution reduces everybody to the state of musicians. — Bruce Sterling

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style. — Chris Squire

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. — Isaac Stern

Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon. — Hunter S. Jones

The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music. — Christian Scott

A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public. — Charles Rosen

Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection". — Dan Bejar

And the feasts on the poop and the musicians. — C.S. Lewis

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny. — Tommy Chong

Worship the music, not the musicians. — Eddie Vedder

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians. — Diplo

Two musicians could play the same notes and sound entirely different. Intonation was everything. — Liane Moriarty

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A. — Ariel Rechtshaid

I feel albino musicians could neutralise all the racial problems. — Sly Stone

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too. — Lisa Loeb

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did. — Wynton Marsalis

My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time. — Gabriel Macht

I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment — Jeff Coffin

I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap. — Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

Their calls competed with the singing of the street musicians and the sounds of drums, angklungs, sulings, and ouds. — Corina Bomann

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music. — Linda Ronstadt

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due. — James Cook

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

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

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

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy. — Nat King Cole

And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight. — Valerie Simpson

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone. — Nicole Richie

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about. — Carlos Santana

A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right? — John Darnielle

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

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music. — Zach Braff

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good. — Andrew Bird

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

We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over. — Doug Aitken

I think 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important. — John Darnielle

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style. — Gunther Schuller

I've always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them. — Michael Franks

Our lives are lived between madness and secrets ... Our secrets make us who we are. - Derek Quinn — G.J. Paterson

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician. — Noel Gallagher

I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously. — Shakira

YouTube provides a unique opportunity for all musicians to market and promote their music and directly engage their fans. — Chad Hurley

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

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day. — Seymour Stein

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively. — Erin Willett

I think a lot of musicians and artists are really one that really only have one trick. — Christian Scott

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release. — Lindi Ortega

Well, my musicians are my friends. — Prince

There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion. — Damien Chazelle

I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read. — Neil Strauss

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

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians. — Joni Mitchell

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