I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music. — John Williams Copy Share Image
A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio! — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well. — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in… — Bono Copy Share Image
I'm not a things person. I'm not one to keep much. I do have a small collection of picks from favorite musicians… — Chris Wyse Copy Share Image
Your development as a musician will come to an eventual standtill if you do not develop yourself as a human being. Only… — Carl Orr Copy Share Image
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which… — Reuben Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
I started thinking, my gosh, all this sophisticated software for measuring how Yo-Yo plays, and how he moves and this technique of… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
'Cause a musician, you can't tell me, "I've got this message I want share with the public," and it's three-and-a-half minutes long.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One good thing about a good book or a good film, or maybe even a song, I'm not a musician but I… — Kleber Mendonca Filho Copy Share Image
It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try, Well how can I say I'm alive.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every musician out there wants to be judged on the merit of their songwriting, the merit of their performing abilities. — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes. — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician. — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing. — Moby Copy Share Image
Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band. — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
The only two things that ever came naturally to me are music and investing. — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
“It's my fucking life and you know what, nobody invited you...so there's the door...see ya!” — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need. — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren't actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them. — Adria Petty Copy Share Image
A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music. — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
