Musician Quotes · Page 43

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

— Miles Davis

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

— Carlos Santana

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

— Lisa Loeb

I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in…

— Lucy Dacus

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

— Lindi Ortega

“A madman is not less a musician than you or myself; only the instrument on which he plays is a little out…

— Kahlil Gibran

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians

— Dan Fogelberg

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

— Amy Winehouse

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love,…

— Beth Ditto

I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing,…

— Herb Alpert

As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm…

— Priyanka Chopra

I was going to say is that I come from a rock background, but also I was super interested in jazz for…

— Jherek Bischoff

A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing.…

— Bradley Joseph

I've always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music, I would have loved to had that…

— George Jones

In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell…

— Randy Weston

Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film…

— Jon Landau

It's just all love. That's what music is. That's why music is created. To make people feel good, to uplift people. That's…

— Bruno Mars

I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and…

— Pat Metheny

Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that…

— Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

I went down to London with the idea that I was going to do vocals over this crazy, crazy trip-hop digital beat.…

— KT Tunstall

I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie…

— Bruce Springsteen

Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument,…

— Laurence Equilbey

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

People will less and less need to put an identity on genres, such as "hip hop," "electronica" and so forth. That's what…

— Princess Superstar

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

— Frederick Delius

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one…

— Quincy Jones

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And…

— Larry Sanders

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I…

— Bill Wyman

“When all else fails, there is music. When that fails you, there is beer.”

— James Hauenstein

Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.

— Chad Smith

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's…

— Sean Lennon

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

— Branford Marsalis

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

— Moby

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

— Sonny Rollins

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how…

— Jimmy Page

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into…

— Dar Williams

I tried to be a musician for seven years and I'd given it my all, but no one was really interested or…

— Michelle Zauner

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything.

— Afrojack

'Simeon's Gift' is really - it's about a musician who - in the Middle Ages, who goes out to find his muse.

— Julie Andrews

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

— Mark Lanegan