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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
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
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
I think musicians should stay off television generally.
— Sufjan Stevens
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
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
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
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
I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.
— Ravi Shankar
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
Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?
— Eva Marie Saint
The digital revolution reduces everybody to the state of musicians.
— Bruce Sterling
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.
— Ken Hensley
