Musicians Music Quotes

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere. — Mike Zwerin

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

Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear ... — Susan Tedeschi

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers. — Shakira

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that ... — Carlos Santana

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

Philippe also brought along musicians - mainly trumpeters and drummers - to scare the enemy. Even then, French music was known to terrify the English. — Stephen Clarke

When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really. — Joss Stone

Music is my religion. — Jimi Hendrix

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

When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed. — Bill Evans

The Internet had been a BIG help with my career. My advice to musicians, Internet is the key. It gets your music heard all across the world. — Soulja Boy

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

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal. — Charles Hazlewood

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

I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers. — Nick Cave

Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call. — Rachel Platten

The bassist -- always the bassist. — Rob Sheffield

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western. — A.R. Rahman

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians. — Henry Rollins

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians. — Branford Marsalis

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters. — Vince Gill

Many times it happens we live our life in chains and we never even know we have the key. — Eagles

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

The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as musicians. — Matt Cameron

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

Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners. — Carl Orr

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians. — Virgil Thomson

Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.
It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language. — Ellen J. Barrier

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop. — Buddy Guy

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