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I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer. —
Robert Moog

Bad music is what will ruin music, not the instruments musicians choose to play. —
Miles Davis

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians ... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies. —
Franz Liszt

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time. —
Herbie Hancock

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer. —
Mike Figgis

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness. —
Langston Hughes

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability. —
Rudolf Carnap

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music. —
Zakk Wylde

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet. —
Olivier Messiaen

Artistes breathe and dream creativity! —
Avijeet Das

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case. —
Paul Banks

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians. —
Miles Davis

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days. —
Kevin Eubanks

All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs. —
Brandon Sanderson

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians. —
Hazrat Inayat Khan

My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub. —
Anthony Kiedis

Music, in all of its variations and venues, is the world's oldest social network. —
Richard J. Alley

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians. —
Lori Singer

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose. —
Carlos Santana

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians. —
John Gay

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer. —
Matisyahu

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

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation. —
Blake Judd

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it. —
Sebastian Faulks

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. —
Duke Ellington

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music. —
Billy Sheehan

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important. —
David Bowie

Musicians own music because music owns them. —
Virgil Thomson

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

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

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other. —
Trey Anastasio

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. —
Roy Ayers

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians. —
Frank Zappa

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It's such a funny, grandiose idea —
Florence Welch

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. —
Horace Walpole

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do. —
Wynton Marsalis

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play. —
Karen DeCrow

Everything is music for the born musician. —
Romain Rolland

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

A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within. —
Kenny Werner

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

Worship the music, not the musicians. —
Eddie Vedder

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

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

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 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

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

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear. —
Erykah Badu

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will. —
Jennifer Lopez

The glances musicians exchange, when music is effortless, that was what he wanted from Milly, that intimacy. —
David Mitchell

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. —
Alberta Hunter

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

In spite of the bans which musicians and music teachers have placed on it, the people still demand and enjoy Ragtime. —
James Weldon Johnson

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians. —
St. Vincent

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other. —
John Fogerty

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. —
Leopold Stokowski

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world. —
Pattie Boyd

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. —
Toots Thielemans

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other. —
John Fogerty

The best musicians know this music isn't about "schools" at all. Like my father says, "There's only one school, the school of 'Can you play? —
Wynton Marsalis

Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music. —
Cass McCombs

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music. —
Alex Ebert

Goliath was the best thing that ever happened to David —
Carla Lynne Hall

Music chooses her musicians. —
Patricia Barber

I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch. —
Pepper Adams

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second. —
Michelle Shocked

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