Musician Quotes · Page 31

Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a…

— David LaMotte

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without…

— Mark Twain

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

— Wynton Marsalis

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

— Bill Frisell

My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

— Tommy Bolin

“For so long music has been my heart, but now it's you...you're my heart.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

I wanted to be a music fan who just listens to music. I never wanted to be musician. I didn't gravitate toward…

— Allan Holdsworth

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

— Tift Merritt

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the…

— Sondre Lerche

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great…

— Wynton Marsalis

Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan…

— Robbie Robertson

I would say I'm a musician first, actually. I started playing music when I was 10. Then I started designing, went to…

— Henrik Vibskov

I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we…

— Shahin Najafi

You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can…

— Frederick Delius

I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played…

— Grimes

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero…

— Henry David Thoreau

Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while…

— Ian Anderson

Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only…

— Herbie Hancock

The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and…

— Robert Fripp

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and…

— Don Alias

I'm a better musician now, and I rarely practice because age has taught me the value of economy. And I think I'm…

— James McBride

I have a nice little idea from some people I met there who are now in their seventies, and I want to…

— John Gimlette

If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars…

— Gary Moore

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

— Kevin Eubanks

I've always been music-oriented. My dad was a musician, and I listened to the radio all of the time.

— Timothy B. Schmit

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

— Stephen Malkmus

I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct…

— Aaron Koblin

I have had some amazing experiences as a musician - even with my modest skills.

— Paul Allen

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

— Jaron Lanier

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

— Trevor Dunn

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

— John Perry Barlow

In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing die.

— William Shakespeare

We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

— Eddie Vedder

What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.

— Jacob Bannon

If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians…

— Dave Grohl

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they…

— John Zorn

I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while.

— Denny Laine

“And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I'll be glad I spent it with you.”

— Brian Logan Dales